household

English

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Etymology

From Middle English houshold, equivalent to house +‎ hold. Cognate with Dutch huishouden (“household”), German Haushalt (“household”), Swedish hushåll (“household, family”), Norwegian husholdning (“household”).

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

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.
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 5:

     Although I was a member of the royal household, I was not among the privileged few who were trained for rule.

   • Jonathan Swift

     And calls, without affecting airs, / His household twice a day to prayers.

2. (obsolete) A line of ancestry; a race or house.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

Translations

those living in the same residence

• Bulgarian: домакинство (bg) n (domakínstvo)
• Catalan: seguici m, familiars (ca) pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 家庭 (zh) (jiātíng), 戶 (zh), 户 (zh) (hù), 人家 (zh) (rénjiā)

• Czech: domácnost (cs) f
• Finnish: kotitalous (fi), talous (fi)
• French: foyer (fr) m, ménage (fr)
• German: Haushalt (de) m
• Greek: νοικοκυριό (el) n (noikokyrió), οικογένεια (el) f (oikogéneia), σπιτικό (el) n (spitikó)
• Irish: teaghlach m, teaghlaigh pl

• Italian: famigliare (it)
• Japanese: 家庭 (ja) (かてい, katei)
• Manx: mooinjer thielagh f
• Portuguese: domicílio (pt) m
• Russian: семейство (ru) n (seméjstvo), семья (ru) f (sem’já), домочадцы (ru) m pl (domočádcy), домашние (ru) m pl (domášnije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: домаћинство n

  Roman: domaćinstvo n

• Spanish: familia (es) f, casa (es) f, hogareños, huéspedes (es), séquito (es) m
• Swedish: hushåll (sv) n
• Turkish: ev halkı (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• Ido: menajo (io)
• Italian: nucleo familiare m

Adjective

household (not comparable)

1. Belonging to the same house and family.
2. Of anything found in or having its origin in a home.

Derived terms

Terms derived from household

Household Cavalry household deity

household god household name

Translations

belonging to same house and family

• Finnish: koti- (fi)
• Greek: οικιακός (el) m (oikiakós)

• Portuguese: familiar (pt)
• Spanish: casero, familiar (es)

found in or having its origin in a home

• Finnish: koti- (fi)
• French: domestique (fr) m, f
• Greek: οικιακός (el) m (oikiakós)

• Portuguese: domiciliar
• Spanish: doméstico (es)