cleaning lady

English

Alternative forms

• cleaning-lady (attributive)

Noun

cleaning lady (plural cleaning ladies)

1. 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 f
• German: Putzfrau (de)
• Hebrew: מנקה f (menaká)
• Hungarian: takarítónő (hu)
• Japanese: 掃除婦 (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.