Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A domestic unit consisting of the members of a family who live together along with nonrelatives such as servants.
- n. The living spaces and possessions belonging to such a unit.
- n. A person or group of people occupying a single dwelling: the rise of nonfamily households.
- adj. Of, relating to, or used in a household: household appliances.
- adj. Commonly known; familiar: has become a household name.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An organized family and whatever pertains to it as a whole; a domestic establishment.
- n. A family considered as consisting of all those who share in the privileges and duties of a common dwelling; the family, including servants and other permanent inmates.
- n. Goods and chattels for housekeeping.
- n. plural A technical name among millers for the best flour made from red wheat, with a small portion of white wheat mixed.
- Of or pertaining to the house and family; domestic; familiar: as, household furniture; household ways.
Wiktionary
- n. Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
- adj. Belonging to the same house and family.
- adj. Of anything found in or having its origin in a home.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.
- n. obsolete A line of ancestory; a race or house.
- adj. Belonging to the house and family; domestic.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a social unit living together
Etymologies
- From Middle English houshold, equivalent to house + hold. Cognate with Dutch huishouden ("household"), German Haushalt ("household"), Swedish hushåll ("household, family"), Norwegian husholdning ("household"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English houshold : hous, house; see house + hold, possession, holding (from Old English, from healdan, to hold; see hold1). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It seems that the 'fairness' wonks get away with using 'household' based purely on irrelevant thesis, i.e., the fallacy that since, ultimately, the earner's (s ') income must support a * household*, that it's therefore the household's total income that "counts" for comparison purposes, not the individual earners'.”
“These days, the major breadmaker in the household is yours truly, and though I don't have a ton more time on my hands than my mom did a couple years ago, I'm a little bit freer as to how I spend my leisure hours.”
“Your bottom line might be going to bed an hour earlier so you can rise earlier to write while the rest of the household is asleep or to get some writing in before rushing to your day job.”
“The income of the household is attributed to each of its members, with an adjustment to reflect differences in needs for households of different sizes (i.e. the needs of a household composed of four people are assumed to be twice as large as those of a person living alone).”
“And of course the paramount thing in a household is the authority of the woman running it. ”
“Yes, I live with a fetish model and a fetish photographer, and the other member of the household is also part of the scene, but * I* am not.”
“De-cluttering a household is a task that appeals strongly to today's professional-class woman.”
“Opened what he called a household account; that was his main business.”
“It came to Elizabeth after a day of extreme humiliation -- the day on which she called her household servants together and dismissed them.”
“Equally the Japanese, European and Chinese "household" is saving in the US as well - creating a capital account surplus.”
Buffet's Trade Proposal, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘household’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
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Yeoman of the what?!
A richly peopled category of palace residents back in the 15th century, which I propose to elevate to yet more ludicrous heighths
mouth, armoury, buttery, sething place, hall, household, beds, bottles, cellar, chamber, ewery, close cart and 21 more...
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yoshiyahu's Words
meme, disingenuous, antebellum, hypnagogic, philtrum, transference, prototypical, janissary, tuareg, shoal, caltrop, bannister and 89 more...
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Amalgamations
Words that have been smashed together.
keystone, touchstone, footprint, thunderhead, seesaw, textbook, leftovers, watchword, afterbirth, fieldwork, outcast, statesman and 148 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Listless
Nowhere else to put these yet.
sibilant, cloying, pithy, apologia, odyssey, amanuensis, pleasantries, ginormous, burnish, sojourn, quonset, over-under and 217 more...
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Yet more words
hootowling, hoot owl, midday, prohibitive, shutdown, gerund, tripe, doweling, detestable, good measure, boojum, undergirding and 167 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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House, Sweet House
"House" words and phrases, literal and figurative. If another word comes before "house" in the phrase, it's listed on its own; if the phrase starts with "house," I've listed the part that comes aft...
publishing, brokerage, bridge, deck, smoke, road, vaudeville, whore, of representatives, of ill repute, of worship, movie and 174 more...
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Cloroxyopia
For nonporous surfaces.
trademark, registered, comments, questions, trash, discard, available, recycling, empty, reuse, flush, disposal and 76 more...
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Peoples and culture
hopi, navajo, indigenous, catalan, quaker, inuit, yoga, dance, flemish, feast, work, folkways and 35 more...
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Spanish Civil War, unknown words foun...
ensue, unleash, unlead, smuggle, estate, household, bailout, bailiff, ease, steward, teeming, cling and 17 more...
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MEC4 Lesson 147
lead, convey, credit, sight, lapse, heart-rending, urge, duke, poll, survey, IQ, bait and 20 more...
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TN9 Lesson 103
active, adolescent, adoption, Broward County, caregiver, complete, coordinator, cuddly, empathy, feline, foster parent, Ft. Lauderdale and 24 more...
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