Usually means: Caretaker in sorority or fraternity.
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  1. housemother: Merriam-Webster
  2. housemother: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. housemother: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. housemother: Collins English Dictionary
  5. housemother: Vocabulary.com
  6. housemother: Wordnik
  7. housemother: Wiktionary
  8. housemother: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. housemother: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. housemother: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. housemother: Dictionary.com
  12. housemother: Rhymezone
  13. housemother: FreeDictionary.org
  14. housemother: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. housemother: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (housemother)

noun:  The mother of a family; the female head of household, or of any collection of persons living as a family or in common, as in a primitive community.
noun:  A woman in charge of a residence for young people to look after them.

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