Meanings
adjectivehomekeeping (not comparable)
- not comparableStaying at home.
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 Know1 more example
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
nounhomekeeping (uncountable)
- uncountableSynonym of housekeeping (“looking after domestic affairs in a house”).
Synonyms: housekeeping
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of housekeeping (“looking after domestic affairs in a house”).
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