householder

CEFRC1

/ˈhaʊshoʊldə(ɹ)/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person who owns or rents a home.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A layperson, lay devotee, gahapati, grihastha.

Examples

  • The householder is responsible for paying the property tax.

  • Is the householder at home?

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
1
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The head of a household.

  2. The owner of a house.

More examples

In context

  • towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant

Synonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

The blank must pay the property tax each year to the city government.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English housholdere, equivalent to household + -er. The Buddhist sense is a semantic loan from Pali gahapati (literally “house-master”).