household

CEFRB1

/ˈhaʊshəʊld/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    All the people living together in one home.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Entirety of work and management required to sustain the household.

Examples

  • More and more married couples share household chores.

  • The household was already awake at 6 in the morning.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈhaʊshoʊld/
  • /ˈhɛʊshʌo̞lt/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Legal or culturally determined unit of people living together.

  2. Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.

  3. A line of ancestry; a race or house.

More examples

In context

  • a household word; a household name

  • 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.

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Origin

noun

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”).