household

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   All the people who live together in one house.

   A typical household in the area has four members.

2. 2
   adj

   Connected with the home and the people who live in it.

   She spends weekends on household chores.

3. 3
   adj

   Very well known to most people.

   The brand quickly became a household name.

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”).

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