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household

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noun/ˈhaʊshəʊld//ˈhaʊshoʊld//ˈhɛʊshʌo̞lt/
  1. 1

    All the persons who live in a given house or other home; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.collective

    • 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.
  2. 2

    Entirety of work and management required to sustain the household.

  3. 3

    Legal or culturally determined unit of people living together.

  4. 4

    A line of ancestry; a race or house.obsolete

    • In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, / My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.
adj/ˈhaʊshəʊld//ˈhaʊshoʊld//ˈhɛʊshʌo̞lt/
  1. 1

    Belonging to the same house and family.not-comparable

  2. 2

    Found in or having its origin in a home.not-comparable

    • Whether boarding an airplane with underwear on your face to protest mask requirements, injecting yourself with horse dewormer instead of a safe and effective vaccine or swallowing household disinfectants because the President of the United
  3. 3

    Widely known to the public; familiar.not-comparable

    • a household word; a household name

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