household

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English houshold, equivalent to house +‎ hold. Cognate with Scots houshald, housald, housell, howsell (household), Dutch huishouden (household) (earlier huishoud), German Low German Huushollen (household) (Middle Low German hūsholt), German Haushalt (household), Swedish hushåll (household, family), Norwegian husholdning (household).

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhaʊshəʊld/
  • (US) enPR: housʹhōld, IPA(key): /ˈhaʊshoʊld/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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household (plural households)

  1. Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
  2. Entirety of work and management required to sustain the household.
  3. Legal or culturally determined unit of people living together.
  4. (obsolete) A line of ancestry; a race or house.

Derived terms

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Translations

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Adjective

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household (not comparable)

  1. Belonging to the same house and family.
  2. Found in or having its origin in a home.
  3. Widely known to the public; familiar.
    a household word; a household name
    • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
      Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
      But he’ll remember with advantages
      What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
      Familiar in his mouth as household words,
      Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
      Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
      Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.

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