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homekeeping

homekeeping adjective: staying at home.

Adjective

homekeeping (not comparable)

  1. 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

Noun

homekeeping (uncountable)

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

homekeeping meaning in Tamil

homekeeping in Tamil

மனைச்சிறையிலிருக்கிற

Synonyms of homekeeping

Origin of homekeeping

From home + keeping.

Questions about homekeeping

What does homekeeping mean?
Homekeeping means staying at home.
What is homekeeping in Tamil?
Homekeeping in Tamil is மனைச்சிறையிலிருக்கிற. See Homekeeping meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is homekeeping?
Homekeeping can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near homekeeping in the dictionary

  1. homegrowns
  2. homeiness
  3. homeish
  4. homekeeper
  5. homekeepers
  6. homekeeping
  7. homekill
  8. Homel
  9. homelab
  10. homelabs
  11. homeland

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Adapted from Wiktionary: homekeeping (page history and authors); homekeeping (Tamil 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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