householder
See also: Householder
English
Etymology
From Middle English housholdere, equivalent to household + -er. The Buddhist sense is a semantic loan from Pali gahapati (literally “house-master”).
Pronunciation
Noun
householder (plural householders)
- The owner of a house.
- The head of a household.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant
- (Buddhism) A layperson, lay devotee, gahapati.
Synonyms
Translations
owner of a house
head of a household
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(Buddhism) layperson
See also
Categories:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms suffixed with -er (inhabitant)
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