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charwoman

charwoman noun: a woman employed to do housework, traditionally coming and going on a daily basis and paid weekly wages.

Noun

charwoman (plural charwomen)

  1. (UK) A woman employed to do housework, traditionally coming and going on a daily basis and paid weekly wages.
    • The cloth was laid by an occasional charwoman, who officiated in the capacity of Mr. Bob Sawyer’s housekeeper; […]1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter XXXVIII, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC
    • Through a partly-opened door the noise of a scrubbing-brush led up to the charwoman, Maryann Money, a person who for a face had a circular disc, furrowed less by age than by long gazes of perplexity at distant objects.1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter IX, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC

charwoman meaning in Tamil and Kannada

charwoman in Tamil

துப்புரவுப் பணிப்பெண்

charwoman in Kannada

ಮನೆಗೆಲಸದವಳು, ಚಾಕರಿಯವಳು

Examples of charwoman in a sentence

  • Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  • But there was nobody at Kig and Kadgit's except the charwoman wiping over the “lino” in the passage.1919, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Pictures”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company...
  • [H]e described the speech of the charwoman washing the hotel stairs and gave lists of words collected from the bathmen.1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 75:

Synonyms of charwoman

Forms of charwoman

pluralcharwomen
alternative formchar-woman

Origin of charwoman

From char + -woman.

Words formed from charwoman

Questions about charwoman

What does charwoman mean?
Charwoman means a woman employed to do housework, traditionally coming and going on a daily basis and paid weekly wages.
What is charwoman in Tamil?
Charwoman in Tamil is துப்புரவுப் பணிப்பெண். See Charwoman meaning in Tamil.
How do you use charwoman in a sentence?
Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.
What part of speech is charwoman?
Charwoman is a noun.
What is the plural of charwoman?
The plural of charwoman is charwomen.

Words near charwoman in the dictionary

  1. charvettes
  2. Charvi
  3. charvs
  4. Charwat
  5. Charwelton
  6. charwoman
  7. charwomanly
  8. charwomen
  9. chary
  10. Charybdian
  11. Charybdis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: charwoman (page history and authors); charwoman (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); charwoman (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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