See Also: Household(money)
household(dictionary)
household articles(medicine)
household products(medicine)
Household insurance(finance)
Member of household(finance)
Household Cavalry, the(dictionary)
household 1, noun(dictionary)
household 2, adjective(dictionary)

household (iou)



household noun & adjective. LME.
[from HOUSE noun1 + HOLD noun1.]
A. noun.
collect. The people living in a house, esp. a family in a house; a domestic establishment. LME.
the Household spec. the royal household.
V. Glendinning The Fairfield household moved back to London. E. Feinstein After his second wife's death, the household of Professor Tsvetayev split up.
The maintaining of a house or family; housekeeping. LME-L16.
collect. The contents of a house; household goods and furniture. LME-E18.
b. attrib. or as adjective.
Of or pertaining to a household; domestic. LME.
Intimate, homely. arch. LME.
L. Sterne Good plain household judgment.
Special collocations & comb.: household appliance a piece of equipment used in the house. household book a book for the keeping of household accounts. household bread Hist. bread of an ordinary quality for household use. household effects the movable contents of a house. household franchise Hist. the right of voting in elections consequent on being a householder. household gods (a) gods presiding over a household, esp. (Roman History) the lares and penates; (b) the essentials of home life. household management the management of domestic affairs, esp. as a subject of study. household name a well-known name. household science (chiefly N. Amer.) the study of household management, domestic science. household stuff arch. = household effects above. household troops (in Britain) troops nominally employed to guard the monarch. household word a well-known name or saying.
householdry noun (arch.) management of a household, housekeeping L16.