cleaning lady

English

Alternative forms

cleaning-lady (attributive)

Noun

cleaning lady (plural cleaning ladies)

A woman who cleans.
Synonyms: cleaneress, cleaning woman, charlady, charwoman

Hypernym: cleaner

Translations

Translations

Dutch: huishoudster (nl) f, kuisvrouw (nl) f
Finnish: siivoojanainen, siivoojatar, siivooja (fi)
French: femme de ménage (fr) f, femme d’ouvrage (fr) f
German: Putzfrau (de)
Hebrew: מנקה f (menaká)
Hungarian: takarítónő (hu)
Japanese: 掃除婦 (ja) (sōjifu)
Macedonian: чистачка f (čistačka)
Polish: sprzątaczka (pl) f
Serbo-Croatian: spremačica (sh)
Spanish: señora de la limpieza
Swedish: städerska (sv) c

Further reading

“cleaning lady”, in Collins English Dictionary.
“cleaning lady” (US) / “cleaning lady” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
“cleaning lady”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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