housemother means The mother of a family; the female head of household, or of any collection of persons living as a family or in common, as in a primitive community. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
noun
- The mother of a family; the female head of household, or of any collection of persons living as a family or in common, as in a primitive community.“At length, the aged house-mother died, or rather slept away into the other world, without pain or sickness, from absolute decay; leaving her solitary partner to mourn her loss, and with an unfeigned longing to join her in the grave.”
- A woman in charge of a residence for young people to look after them.