household
Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
Other meanings
Entirety of work and management required to sustain the household.
Legal or culturally determined unit of people living together.
Synonyms
- family
- home
Related words
- householder
- householding
- householdry
- householdship
- interhousehold
- intrahousehold
- multihousehold
- nonhousehold
- household soap
- extended household
- head of household
- household appliance
Word history
From Middle English "houshold".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “household” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.