| Main Entry: | housekeeping |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | household management |
Synonyms: |
domestic science, home economy, housewifery, housework |
| Main Entry: | housework |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cleaning, maintaining a home |
Synonyms: |
administration, bed-making, cooking, domestic art, domestic science, dusting, home economics, homemaking, housecraft, housekeeping, ironing, laundering, management, mopping, sewing, stewardship, sweeping, washing |
| Main Entry: | husbandry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management of one's private affairs |
Synonyms: |
administration, budgeting, home management, housekeeping, management, managership |
| Main Entry: | domestic science |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the study of home management |
Synonyms: |
home ec, home economics, housekeeping |
| Concept: | [The economy or management of animals] Husbandry. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; special vitality |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
husbandry, taming; circuration, zoohygiantics; domestication, domesticity; manege, veterinary art; farriery; breeding, pisciculture., menagerie, vivarium, zoological garden, zoo; bear pit; aviary, apiary, alveary, beehive; hive; aquarium, fishery; duck pond, fish pond., [Destruction of animals] phthisozoics (killing) [more]., neatherd, cowherd, shepherd; grazier, drover, cowkeeper; trainer, breeder; apiarian, apiarist; bull whacker [U.S.], cowboy, cow puncher [U.S.], farrier; horse leech, horse doctor; vaquero, veterinarian, vet, veterinary surgeon., cage (prison); hencoop, bird cage, cauf; range, sheepfold (inclosure).
-verbs
tame, domesticate, acclimatize, breed, tend, break in, train; cage, bridle (restrain).
-adjectives
pastoral, bucolic; tame, domestic.
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