Definition of HOUSEHOLD

household

Plural: households

Noun

  • a social unit living together
    • "It was a good Christian household"
  • Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
  • Entirety of work and management required to sustain the household.
  • Legal or culturally determined unit of people living together.
  • A line of ancestry; a race or house.

Adj

  • Belonging to the same house and family.
  • Found in or having its origin in a home.
  • Widely known to the public; familiar.

Examples

  • a household word; a household name

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English houshold. By surface analysis, house + hold.
Cognate with Scots houshald, housald, housell, howsell (“household”), Dutch huishouden (“household”) (earlier huishoud), German Low German Huushollen (“household”) (Middle Low German hūsholt), German Haushalt (“household”), Swedish hushåll (“household, family”), Norwegian husholdning (“household”).

Synonyms

family, home, house, menage

Scrabble Score: 16

household: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
household: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
household: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

household: valid Words With Friends Word