🇬🇧 Housework meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Housework is all the jobs you do to keep your home clean, neat, and comfortable to live in. It includes things like washing dishes, sweeping the floor, making the beds, doing the laundry, taking out the trash, and dusting the furniture. Housework helps keep your home healthy, safe, and nice to be in for everyone who lives there.

Our housework chart says I do the dishes, but it doesn’t say anything about not screaming while I do them.

I did so much housework that the vacuum cleaner requested a day off.

The cat helped with housework by knocking everything off the table so I’d have more to pick up.

Dad said we’re doing housework together, then disappeared to “organize” the snack cupboard.

Scientists say doing housework like vacuuming and sweeping can actually count as exercise—so technically, cleaning your room can make you stronger.

A little boy sees a big mess. His mom says, "We do housework." They start housework: wash plates, sweep floor, pick toys, dust shelf. The boy cries, then laughs. The boy helps with housework and dries a cup. Housework is slow, but they sing as they do housework. They finish housework, sit, eat cake, and hug.

This word is at the A2 level, which means it’s useful for simple, everyday situations. You might use it when shopping, traveling, or talking about your hobbies. Words at this level help you build confidence in practical, routine conversations.

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