household
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)households
- 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”“the family refused to accept his will”Synonyms: familyhousehomemenageType of unit, social unitKinds foster home, nuclear family, menage a trois, extended family, foster family, broken home
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Translations
Adjective domestic, of the home
- Spanish
- doméstico
- French
- domestique
- German
- häuslich
- Italian
- domestico
- Portuguese
- doméstico
- Turkish
- ev
- Vietnamese
- gia đình
- Portuguese (PT)
- domiciliar
- Esperanto
- doma
- Romanian
- casnic
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
1. Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.
And calls, without affecting airs, His household twice a day to prayers.— Jonathan Swift
2. A line of ancestry; a race or house. obsolete William Shakespeare
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. obsolete — Household gods Roman antiquity, 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.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54