单词 | homebuilding |
释义 | homebuildingn. The action or industry of building a home or homes; house-building. Also: = homemaking n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [noun] > management or administration > domestic management housewifeship?c1225 cove and keyc1250 husbandryc1300 economica1393 ménagea1393 householda1398 householdinga1425 housewifery1440 economyc1454 economics1535 house rule1579 householdry1581 managery1586 housekeeping1652 household management1741 notability1756 homebuilding1757 domestic economy1778 Wirtschaft1841 homekeeping1846 housecraft1848 homemaking1863 home economics1872 home science1886 household science1896 domestic science1897 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [noun] > building or constructing houses housingc1400 housebuilding1560 homebuilding1757 1757 M. Postlethwayt Britain's Commerc. Interest I. vii. 172 All the timber we stand in need of for home building. 1832 T. Willcocks Hist. Russia vii. 40 A market..exhibits a curious variety of materials for home building. 1878 Phrenol. Jrnl. Dec. 295/1 Many girls..are engaged (or ought to be, if married) in learning the art of home-building. 1928 Garden & Home Builder Jan. 403/2 There are a number of legitimate participants in this great game of home building who are satisfied with a fair profit. 1968 Changing Times Dec. 7/1 The figures that show home-building trends are based on ‘housing starts’. 1994 M. Brinkley Housebuilder's Bible (ed. 5) vii. 80/2 It's an American way of homebuilding that can best be described as timber frame without the timber. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). homebuildingadj. That builds a home or homes. Also: that is a homemaker (homemaker n. 1). ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > person in control > [adjective] > of or relating to manager > skilled in household management housewifely1526 stewardly1746 homebuilding1825 1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 112 The home-building, wedded, and divorceless Swallow. 1888 J. Mooso Life & Trav. xxxiii. 376 The establishment of homes and farms..will in time make home-loving and home-building people of these roving bands of the prairie. 1901 Cent. Mag. Dec. 204/1 There was still a vast world without weeds, where the soil was virgin, where one might be uncrowded by the touch of home-building man. 2009 Intelligencer Jrnl. (Lancaster, Pa.) (Nexis) 21 Feb. a1 Having grown up in a homebuilding family and done construction work himself, Pusey thought he knew what to look for in buying the house. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1757adj.1825 |
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