English Explanatory Dictionary

charwoman

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A woman employed to do housework, traditionally coming and going on a daily basis and paid weekly wages.

Word forms

charwoman charwomen char-woman

Etymology

From char + -woman.

Synonyms

char charlady Cinderella cleaning woman

Derived words

charwomanly
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on C Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary