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housemother

NOUN
  1. a woman employed as a chaperon in a residence for young people

How To Use housemother In A Sentence

  • A housemother will be living on the premises and volunteers will soon join the staff as youth advisors.
  • Mrs. Landford, the housemother, came upon them herself when she smelled the smoke and heard the laughter. Olivia
  • 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.
  • And the grey doctors bundled each newborn into the standard, blue-and-pink starred receiving blanket, for distribution to other, anonymous, housemothers and housefathers in the community.
  • Like Lessing during the 1960s, Frances is a ‘housemother’, who fills her large home with an eclectic mixture of waifs, strays and scroungers.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • She is in her eighth year as a volunteer, a housemother-type who gives hugs, leads prayers, applies Band-Aids and sews on buttons. Colima orphanage runs on faith
  • We called our housemother “The Phantom” because she was small and skinny and had broken a hip. You’ll Never Blue Ball in This Town Again
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