homework

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: home=work

CIDE DICTIONARY

homework, n. 

•  preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home).  [WordNet 1.5]
•  Studies or other preparatory work done prior to some activity; -- usually used of preparations for activities of significance or consequence for the performer; as, the candidate didn't do her homework well and was outclassed in the debate.  [PJC]
•  Paid work done at home, especially piecework.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

homework, n.
1 work to be done at home, esp. by a school pupil.
2 preparatory work or study.

THESAURUS

homework

assignment, busywork, chalk talk, chare, charge, chore, commission, discourse, disquisition, duty, errand, exercise, exposition, fish to fry, harangue, homily, instruction, job, job of work, labor, lecture, lecture-demonstration, lesson, make-work, matters in hand, mission, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, object lesson, odd job, piece of work, preachment, project, recital, recitation, sermon, service, set task, skull session, stint, talk, task, teaching, things to do, work

ROGET THESAURUS

homework

Teaching

N teaching, instruction, edification, education, tuition, tutorage, tutelage, direction, guidance, opsimathy, qualification, preparation, training, schooling, discipline, excitation, drill, practice, book exercise, persuasion, proselytism, propagandism, propaganda, indoctrination, inculcation, inoculation, advise, explanation, lesson, lecture, sermon, apologue, parable, discourse, prolection, preachment, chalk talk, Chautauqua, exercise, task, curriculum, course, course of study, grammar, three R's, initiation, A, B, C, elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education, propaedeutics, moral tuition, gymnastics, calisthenics, physical drill, physical education, sloyd, phonics, rote, rote memorization, brute memory, cooperative learning, Montessori method, ungraded classes, test, examination, exam, final exam, mid-term exam grade, score, marks, A, B, C, D, E, F, gentleman's C, pass, fail, incomplete, homework, take-home lesson, exercise for the student, theme, project, teaching, taught, educational, scholastic, academic, doctrinal, disciplinal, instructive, instructional, didactic, propaedeutic, propaedeutical, the schoolmaster abroad, a bovi majori disscit arare minor, adeo in teneris consuecere multum est, docendo discimus, quaenocent docent, qui docet discit, sermons in stones and good in everything.