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household

Pronunciation: /ˈhaʊshəʊld/

The English word “household” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. All the persons who live in a given house or other home; 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. A line of ancestry; a race or house.

adjective

  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.

Etymology

From Middle English houshold. By surface analysis, 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”).

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