houseman
UK/ˈhaʊsmən/
houseman noun: a male follower or retainer; a male domestic worker or servant.
Noun
houseman (plural housemen)
- A male follower or retainer; a male domestic worker or servant.
- A medical graduate gaining practical experience in a hospital; a house officer.
- A young houseman wearing his white coat and name-tag walked past us towards the apartment houses beside the lake.2000, J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 184
- Synonyms:
- house officer, intern
Proper noun capitalized: Houseman
Houseman
- A surname.
houseman meaning in Malayalam
houseman in Malayalam
- house doctor, junior doctor, newly qualified doctor
- ആശുപത്രിയിൽ സ്ഥിരതാമസമുള്ള യുവഡോക്ടർ, ചികിത്സകൻ, ഭിഷഗ്വരൻ, പുതുതായി യോഗ്യത നേടിയ ഡോക്ടർ, ആശുപത്രിയിൽ തന്നെ താമസമുള്ള ഡോക്ടർ, പരിശീലനം നേടുന്ന ഡോക്ടർ
Synonyms of houseman
Forms of houseman
| plural | housemen |
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Origin of houseman
From house + -man.
Questions about houseman
- What does houseman mean?
- Houseman means a male follower or retainer; a male domestic worker or servant.
- What is houseman in Malayalam?
- Houseman in Malayalam is ആശുപത്രിയിൽ സ്ഥിരതാമസമുള്ള യുവഡോക്ടർ, ചികിത്സകൻ, ഭിഷഗ്വരൻ. See Houseman meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is houseman?
- Houseman can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce houseman?
- Houseman is pronounced /ˈhaʊsmən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of houseman?
- The plural of houseman is housemen.
Words near houseman in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: houseman (page history and authors); Houseman (page history and authors); houseman (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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