Definition of "housemen" [housemen]

• Plural form of houseman. (noun)

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• "The subject of her thoughts, blithely unaware of the future hurtling towards her, was doing a round with Sir Harry Bliss, his registrar -- one Donald Jones, a clutch of worried housemen, and the social worker, a beaky-nosed lady with a heart of gold, known throughout the hospital as Ducky."
• "There was a faint murmur of laughter because he prided himself on his sense of humour, but Sister Proud foot who had heard that one a dozen times before merely handed him the patient's chart as the housemen fanned out into a respectful semi-circle around the foot of the bed."
• "She was perched on the bottom stair, between two of Aede's friends, listening to their account of life on the wards in a Rotterdam hospital where they were housemen."