housemother

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /haʊsˈmʌðə(ɹ)/|[haʊsˈmɐðə(ɹ)]    美 /hʌʊsˈmʌðɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The mother of a family; the female head of household, or of any collection of persons living as a family or in common, as in a primitive community.
    — At length, the aged house-mother died, or rather slept away into the other world, without pain or sickness, from absolute decay; leaving her solitary partner to mourn her loss, and with an unfeigned longing to join her in the grave.
  2. A woman in charge of a residence for young people to look after them.

词形变化

housemothers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
housemotherly
相关词
housefather houseparent

词源

From house + mother. First use appears c. 1822. See cite below.
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