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household.

All the persons who live in a given house or other home; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈhaʊshəʊld/UK/ˈhaʊshoʊld/US/ˈhaʊshəʊld/Ireland/ˈhɛʊshʌo̞lt/

  1. All the persons who live in a given house or other home; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.

    collective

  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.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

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”).

adj/ˈhaʊshəʊld/UK/ˈhaʊshoʊld/US/ˈhaʊshəʊld/Ireland/ˈhɛʊshʌo̞lt/

  1. Belonging to the same house and family.

    not-comparable

  2. Found in or having its origin in a home.

    not-comparable

  3. Widely known to the public; familiar.

    not-comparable
    a household word; a household name
Where this word comes from

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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