A woman in charge of and living in a boarding school house or children's home.
（寄宿制学校或孤儿院的）女舍监，女管理员
Example sentencesExamples
And the housemother said quite graciously, ‘Well, Virginia, you have a choice.’
Kellen has served as the fraternity's housemother since its re-establishment on campus in 1992.
Kate found the training school alienating, and her claims that her housemother disliked her were dismissed as irrational, possibly adding to her sense of injustice.
A housemother will be living on the premises and volunteers will soon join the staff as youth advisors.
Despite the housemother's objections, plans for the revels continue.
In those days, the cottages now used for respite care for disabled children were run as individual homes where husband-and-wife teams, known as housefathers and housemothers, looked after abandoned or orphaned children.
It was a joy to sit amid thirty or so girls and give a devotional talk as two of the housemothers translated my English into Tagalog.
Muttering under his breath, he joins the distinguished company of fellow resident Terrence and housemother Mrs. Wilkinson.
On 1st October 1968, when she was 21 years old, the applicant commenced work as a housemother in a Community Home in Prestatyn.
Definition of housemother in US English:
housemother
nounˈhousˌməT͟Hərˈhaʊsˌməðər
A woman in charge of and living in a boarding school dormitory or children's home.
（寄宿制学校或孤儿院的）女舍监，女管理员
Example sentencesExamples
A housemother will be living on the premises and volunteers will soon join the staff as youth advisors.
Kellen has served as the fraternity's housemother since its re-establishment on campus in 1992.
On 1st October 1968, when she was 21 years old, the applicant commenced work as a housemother in a Community Home in Prestatyn.
And the housemother said quite graciously, ‘Well, Virginia, you have a choice.’
Despite the housemother's objections, plans for the revels continue.
Muttering under his breath, he joins the distinguished company of fellow resident Terrence and housemother Mrs. Wilkinson.
It was a joy to sit amid thirty or so girls and give a devotional talk as two of the housemothers translated my English into Tagalog.
In those days, the cottages now used for respite care for disabled children were run as individual homes where husband-and-wife teams, known as housefathers and housemothers, looked after abandoned or orphaned children.
Kate found the training school alienating, and her claims that her housemother disliked her were dismissed as irrational, possibly adding to her sense of injustice.