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Audio Help [hous-hohld, -ohld] Pronunciation Key –noun
–adjective
| 1. | the people of a house collectively; a family including its servants. |
| 2. | of or pertaining to a household: household furniture. |
| 3. | for use in maintaining a home, esp. for use in cooking, cleaning, laundering, repairing, etc., in the home: a household bleach. |
| 4. | common or usual; ordinary. |
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adj.
[Middle English houshold : hous, house; see house + hold, possession, holding (from Old English, from healdan, to hold; see hold1).] |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
| household | |
noun | |
| 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" [syn: family] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
ˈhousehold noun
the people who live together in a house, including their servants
Example: How many people are there in this household?
See also: house-fly, house-warming, houseboat, housebreaker, householder, housekeeper, housekeeping, houseman, housetrain, housewife, housework, housing, housing benefit, house, house agent, house arrest, household word, like a house on fire, "household" in any languageExample: How many people are there in this household?
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version), © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
Household
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.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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