Definition of "housemother" [housemother]

• A woman employed as a houseparent. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "We called our housemother “The Phantom” because she was small and skinny and had broken a hip."
• "NOT because the former situation was bad but it is a function of having lived on our own for 34 years and having a housemother is a bit much."
• "But was I really supposed to have this older man pick me up at the Gamma Phi Beta house and have our senile housemother, aka “The Phantom,” mistake him for someone’s father?"