Definitions for HOUSEHOLD
ˈhaʊsˌhoʊld, -ˌoʊldhouse·hold

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. family, household, house, home, menagenoun

   a social unit living together

   "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home"

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.4 / 5 votes

1. householdnoun

   Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.

2. householdadjective

   Belonging to the same house and family.

3. householdadjective

   Of anything found in or having its origin in a home.

4. Etymology: From houshold, equivalent to. Cognate with huishouden, Haushalt, hushåll, husholdning.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Householdnoun

   Etymology: house and hold.

   1. A family living together.

   Two housholds, both alike in dignity,
   In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
   From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
   Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. William Shakespeare.

   A little kingdom is a great houshold, and a great houshold a little kingdom. Francis Bacon, Advice to Villiers.

   Of God observ’d
   The one just man alive, by his command,
   Shall build a wond’rous ark, as thou beheld’st,
   To save himself and houshold from amidst
   A world devote to universal wreck. John Milton, Parad. Lost, b. xi.

   He has always taken to himself, amongst the sons of men, a peculiar houshold of his love, which at all times he has cherished as a father, and governed as a master: this is the proper houshold of faith; in the first ages of the world, ’twas sometimes literally no more than a single houshold, or some few families. Thomas Sprat, Sermons.

   Great crimes must be with greater crimes repaid,
   And second funerals on the former laid;
   Let the whole houshold in one ruin fall,
   And may Diana’s curse o’ertake us all. John Dryden, Fables.

   Learning’s little houshold did embark,
   With her world’s fruitful system in her sacred ark. Jonathan Swift.

   In his own church he keeps a seat,
   Says grace before and after meat;
   And calls, without affecting airs,
   His houshold twice a day to prayers. Jonathan Swift.

   2. Family life; domestick management.

   An inventory, thus importing
   The several parcels of his plate, his treasure,
   Rich stuffs, and ornaments of houshold. William Shakespeare, H. VIII.

   3. It is used in the manner of an adjective, to signify domestick; belonging to the family.

   Cornelius called two of his houshold servants. Acts x. 7.

   For nothing lovelier can be found
   In woman, than to study houshold good;
   And good works in her husband to promote. John Milton, Pa. Lost.

   It would be endless to enumerate the oaths and blasphemies among the men, among the women the neglect of houshold affairs. Jonathan Swift.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Household

   A household consists of two or more persons who live in the same dwelling. It may be of a single family or another type of person group. The household is the basic unit of analysis in many social, microeconomic and government models, and is important to economics and inheritance.Household models include families, blended families, shared housing, group homes, boarding houses, houses of multiple occupancy (UK), and single room occupancy (US). In feudal societies, the royal household and medieval households of the wealthy included servants and other retainers.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. household

   A household can be defined as a group of individuals who live together under one roof and share common living expenses and responsibilities in order to meet their basic needs. This includes activities such as cooking, cleaning, and managing finances together. Households can be composed of various types of relationships, such as families, roommates, or individuals living alone. The members of a household often form a social unit and may rely on each other for emotional support and assistance in daily life.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Householdnoun

   those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family

2. Householdnoun

   a line of ancestory; a race or house

3. Householdadjective

   belonging to the house and family; domestic; as, household furniture; household affairs

WikidataRate this definition:4.3 / 3 votes

1. Household

   The household is "the basic residential unit in which economic production, consumption, inheritance, child rearing, and shelter are organized and carried out"; [the household] "may or may not be synonymous with family". The household is the basic unit of analysis in many social, microeconomic and government models. The term refers to all individuals who live in the same dwelling. In economics, a household is a person or a group of people living in the same residence. Most economic models do not address whether the members of a household are a family in the traditional sense. Government and policy discussions often treat the terms household and family as synonymous, especially in western societies where the nuclear family has become the most common family structure. In reality, there is not always a one-to-one relationship between households and families.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. household

   The person or group of people who live at a house or property.

   The household expenses were covered by a collective contribution.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 16, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'HOUSEHOLD' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2588

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'HOUSEHOLD' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3703

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'HOUSEHOLD' in Nouns Frequency: #813

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How to pronounce HOUSEHOLD?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say HOUSEHOLD in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of HOUSEHOLD in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of HOUSEHOLD in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of HOUSEHOLD in a Sentence

1. W. Somerset Maugham:

   When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.

2. Erin Bromage:

   Be on the other side of the pool while sitting there having a conversation with someone from a different household.

3. Shelley Pasnik:

   Parenting no longer involves relying on the finite-ness imposed by media. Instead, it's up to the parents and household rules to make it finite and help kids understand when to stop.

4. Eric Garcetti:

   We must refrain from gathering with people from outside our household, wherever possible, this most recent surge in COVID-19 cases presents us with an opportunity to work together, again, to reduce its spread and flatten the curve.

5. Jurie Mentz:

   Most of the guys in the project used to grow maize for household consumption. Now they are making money as well.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=HOUSEHOLD
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Household
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=HOUSEHOLD
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/HOUSEHOLD
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=HOUSEHOLD
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=HOUSEHOLD