Meaning of Household | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
3. Entirety of work and management required to sustain the household.
4. Legal or culturally determined unit of people living together.
5. A line of ancestry; a race or house.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“And calls, without affecting airs, / His household twice a day to prayers.”

“Shih Hung-pi was born a pauper at a poor household in Suichung County, Liaoning. He suffered untold misery in the old society. Then he joined the PLA.”

“Although I was a member of the royal household, I was not among the privileged few who were trained for rule.”

“Nearly half of all renter households in the US were cost-burdened in 2023, meaning they paid more than 30% of their income towards housing costs, according to new government data.”

“In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, / My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.”

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