Meaning of household name | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A brand name that is well known to the great majority of households.
2. A genericized trademark.
3. A very well-known public figure.

Equivalents

Examples

“Instagram has revolutionized shopping, dealt a near-death blow to women’s magazines, taken celebrities from TV and movie screens to our fingertips and made Shih Tzus and personal trainers household names. (At least in some households.)”

“[Jean] Twenge […] isn’t necessarily a household name like her sometimes collaborator Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and the author of the megahit “The Anxious Generation,” which has spent 75 weeks hovering near the top of the New York Times best-seller list.”

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