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homework

nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈhəʊmˌwɜːk//
  • United States//ˈhoʊmˌwɝk//

Exercises assigned by a teacher to a student which review concepts studied in class.

noun

  1. 1

    Exercises assigned by a teacher to a student which review concepts studied in class.

    You must do your homework before you can watch television.

    They will also be doing a few preparation homeworks for the practical CA during this time so it won't all be Unit1 focussed.

    Even 15-year-olds do no more than 30 minutes' homework a night.

    And I'm sympathetic to teachers who feel that they have enough to worry about, without adding A.I.-generated homework to the mix.

  2. 2

    Exercises assigned by a teacher to a student which review concepts studied in class. Something which one is encouraged to learn or study on one's own.

    The speaker had certainly done his homework before delivering the lecture.

    Since the whole world is watching this launch, they probably should've done some homework on their talking points.

    Four years after her first sexual health book came out, Dr. Lori Brotto is giving her readers a little bit of homework for the bedroom.

    I didn't even know who he was until I did my homework and realised he was a premier footballer for Bayern.

  3. 3

    archaicAny work that is done at home; housework.

    Hatch perceived homework to be one tool—along with various workfare schemes and private sector training programs—that would take women off welfare and make poor women "independent."

  4. 4

    slangSexual intercourse.

    My wife and I want a kid, and we do plenty of homework, but goddamn it, Dutch, I just can't connect.

  5. 5

    Tasks assigned by a dominant for a submissive to perform when they are physically away from their dominant or otherwise free.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos Proto-Germanic *haimaz Proto-West Germanic *haim Old English hām Middle English hōm English home English work English homework From home + work.

Forms

plural
homeworks
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).