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homekeeping en · ADJ

Etymology

From home + keeping.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Staying at home.
   • Forty years ago, if any aspiring Protheus, conceiving that “home-keeping youths have ever homely wits,” desired to cross the Channel, he had two ways open to him. 1860, The Dublin University Magazine, volume 56, page 678:
   • Nellie was a homekeeping woman, and a trip to Indiana would mean something to her. 1941, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Familiar Faces: Stories of People You Know:

homekeeping en · NOUN

Etymology

From home + keeping.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Synonym of housekeeping (“looking after domestic affairs in a house”).

Relateds

homekeeper

Synonyms

housekeeping