charwoman
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of charwoman
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
His mother, Georgina, was a charwoman, but he recalled nothing of his father, Thomas, who worked in an iron foundry.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2020
Her father, a shipyard worker, died of pneumonia a month before her birth, and her mother worked as a charwoman to raise her and her sister, Dot.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2019
Steve Beall generates some droll moments as a lascivious doctor, and Liz Dutton is splendidly ominous as a silent charwoman charged with cleaning up after executions.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2016
His father was a marble cutter, his mother a charwoman.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2015
Perhaps it is where the charwoman who stole the cabbages was sent.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
Babbling bookmakers, taking hard-earned bobs from farmers, charwomen, clerks, winked slyly under their bowler hats.
From Time Magazine Archive
He preached quietly, but with an actor's skill, and in a voice so rich and delicate that board chairmen and bored charwomen alike would come back again and again for more.
From Time Magazine Archive
In room No. 1037 on the south side of a massive, red-brick building in St. Paul last week charwomen were dusting and cleaning and bustling about.
From Time Magazine Archive
To build it, a "spiritual symbol" for the city and the University, he has spent 14 years wheedling money from charwomen and millionaires.
From Time Magazine Archive
I once, indeed, overheard part of a dialogue between Leah and one of the charwomen, of which Grace formed the subject.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
