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household arts

household arts noun: theory and practice involving the skills and specialized knowledge in performing the domestic tasks required to care for the home and its occupants.

Noun

household arts pl (plural only)

  1. (dated, plural, plural-only, rare, singular, set phrase) Theory and practice involving the skills and specialized knowledge in performing the domestic tasks required to care for the home and its occupants.
    • Meronym: housework
    • For the Phaeacian women as far exceeded all other women in household arts as the mariners of that country did the rest of mankind in the management of ships.1855, Thomas Bulfinch, chapter 23, in Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable

Synonyms of household arts

Questions about household arts

What does household arts mean?
Household arts means theory and practice involving the skills and specialized knowledge in performing the domestic tasks required to care for the home and its occupants.
What part of speech is household arts?
Household arts is a noun.

Words near household arts in the dictionary

  1. househelps
  2. household
  3. household appliance
  4. household appliances
  5. household art
  6. household arts
  7. household bread
  8. household breads
  9. household deities
  10. household deity
  11. household effect

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