About The Word Household
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Household
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What's The Definition Of Household?
[n] 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"
[adj] of or related to or used in the running of a household; "household chores"; "household management"; "household appliances" Synonyms | Synonyms for Household: domestic | family | home | house | menage Related Terms | Find terms related to Household: accustomed | ancestral halls | Attic | average | brood | chaste | children | chimney corner | classic | classical | common | commonly known | commonplace | conventional | current | customary | domal | domestic | domiciliary | everyday | familiar | family | family homestead | fireplace | fireside | folks | foyer | garden | garden-variety | get | habitual | hackneyed | hearth | hearth and home | hearthstone | home | home place | home roof | home sweet home | homefolks | homely | homespun | homestead | house | ingle | inglenook | ingleside | issue | manorial | mansional | matter-of-fact | menage | nondescript | normative | notorious | offspring | ordinary | palatial | paternal roof | people | plain | platitudinous | popular | predominating | prescriptive | prevailing | prosaic | prosy | proverbial | public | pure | pure and simple | regular | regulation | residential | residentiary | roof | rooftree | simple | standard | stock | talked-about | talked-of | toft | trite | truistic | universal | universally admitted | universally recognized | usual | vernacular | well-kenned | well-known | well-recognized | well-understood | widely known | wonted | workaday | workday See Also | conjugal family | extended family | foster home | menage a trois | nuclear family | social unit | unit Household In Webster's Dictionary \House"hold`\, n.
1. Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.
And calls, without affecting airs, His household
twice a day to prayers. --Swift.
2. A line of ancestory; a race or house. [Obs.] --Shak.
\House"hold`\, a. Belonging to the house and family; domestic; as, household furniture; household affairs. {Household bread}, bread made in the house for common use; hence, bread that is not of the finest quality. [Obs.] {Household gods} (Rom. Antiq.), the gods presiding over the house and family; the Lares and Penates; hence, all objects endeared by association with home. {Household troops}, troops appointed to attend and guard the sovereign or his residence. |
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