Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who occupies or owns a house.
- n. The head of a household.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The master or chief of a family; one upon whom rests the duty of supporting and governing the members of a family or household.
- n. One who occupies a house; specifically, in law, one who owns or holds and occupies a house, or a part of one which constitutes a separate abode, and who habitually dwells therein, with others, if any, who are dependent on him.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who owns a home
Examples
“The person designated as the householder is the “reference person” to whom the relationship of all other household members, if any, is recorded.”
“Bizarrely enough, in the villages where a householder is statistically least likely to be burgled (in some areas of the Division literally least likely in the whole of England!) people are most worried that they will be burgled.”
“And God as householder is the way the ancient Jews and earliest Christians got their idea of how things should be run.”
The Huffington Post: Understanding The Lord's Prayer With John Dominic Crossan
“The householder is easier to identify, more likely to pay and much less likely to give the "street warden" a good kicking.”
“The householder is then obligated to throw a Fandango the following night.”
“Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard -- (See on [1336] Lu 13: 6). and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower -- These details are taken, as is the basis of the parable itself, from that beautiful parable of Isa 5: 1-7, in order to fix down the application and sustain it by Old Testament authority. and let it out to husbandmen -- These are just the ordinary spiritual guides of the people, under whose care and culture the fruits of righteousness are expected to spring up. and went into a far country -- "for a long time" (Lu 20: 9), leaving the vineyard to the laws of the spiritual husbandry during the whole time of the Jewish economy.”
“33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted”
“A householder is the person who owns or rents the property and/or is wholly or partly responsible for paying household bills.”
The Guardian: Census 2011: the typical family is not what it used to be
“See now, the place is perfumed and provision prepared and the householder is absent this night, and I give to thee my person without reserve, I whose favours kings and captains and men of fortune have sought this long while, but I have regarded none of them.”
“BJ had told me that the householder was a guy by the name of Jock.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘householder’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Be holders
Behold! (and becomingholders!!) We all are stakeholders? Where's the steak? No beef!
lienholder, placeholder, householder, policyholder, candleholder, officeholder, ticket holder, stockholder, cigarette holder, withholder, record-holder, stakeholder and 39 more...
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I, Claudius
Words taken from I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
evocation, aureus, sestertii, denarii, assegai, pilum, framea, sibyl, propitiatory, duenna, tyrannicide, maggoty and 136 more...
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Next!
salvific, redemptive, salvic, roil, changeling, barrow, burro, sow, swath, haymow, shock, sheaves and 190 more...
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