Word Meanings - APARTMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions.

• Housewarming
  A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises.
• Separator
  One who, or that which, separates.
• Housebreaking
  The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To break a house, under Break.
• Housewife
  The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
• Separatory
  Separative.
• Housebuilder
  One whose business is to build houses; a housewright.
• Housecarl
  A household servant; also, one of the bodyguard of King Canute.
• Housewive
  To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize.
• Separatrix
  The decimal point; the dot placed at the left of a decimal fraction, to separate it from the whole number which it follows. The term is sometimes also applied to other marks of separation.
• Household
  Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.
• Housewifely
  Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent.
• HOUSEWIFEHOUSEWIVE
  To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize. Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well housewived. Fuller.
• Householder
  The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family.
• Housewifery
  The business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns.
• Housekeeper
  One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family.
• Housework
  The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.

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