'Household' definitions:
Definition of 'household'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Household'
From: GCIDE
- Household \House"hold`\, n.
- 1. Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family. [1913 Webster]
- And calls, without affecting airs, His household twice a day to prayers. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A line of ancestory; a race or house. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Household'
From: GCIDE
- Household \House"hold`\, a. Belonging to the house and family; domestic; as, household furniture; household affairs. [1913 Webster]
- Household bread, bread made in the house for common use; hence, bread that is not of the finest quality. [Obs.]
- Household gods (Rom. Antiq.), the gods presiding over the house and family; the Lares and Penates; hence, all objects endeared by association with home.
- Household troops, troops appointed to attend and guard the sovereign or his residence. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'household'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accustomed,
- ancestral halls,
- Attic,
- average,
- brood,
- chaste,
- children,
- chimney corner,
- classic,
- classical,
- common,
- commonly known,
- commonplace,
- conventional,
- current,
- customary,
- domal,
- domestic,
- domiciliary,
- everyday,
- familiar,
- family,
- family homestead,
- fireplace,
- fireside,
- folks,
- foyer,
- garden,
- garden-variety,
- get,
- habitual,
- hackneyed,
- hearth,
- hearth and home,
- hearthstone,
- home,
- home place,
- home roof,
- home sweet home,
- homefolks,
- homely,
- homespun,
- homestead,
- house,
- ingle,
- inglenook,
- ingleside,
- issue,
- manorial,
- mansional,
- matter-of-fact,
- menage,
- nondescript,
- normative,
- notorious,
- offspring,
- ordinary,
- palatial,
- paternal roof,
- people,
- plain,
- platitudinous,
- popular,
- predominating,
- prescriptive,
- prevailing,
- prosaic,
- prosy,
- proverbial,
- public,
- pure,
- pure and simple,
- regular,
- regulation,
- residential,
- residentiary,
- roof,
- rooftree,
- simple,
- standard,
- stock,
- talked-about,
- talked-of,
- toft,
- trite,
- truistic,
- universal,
- universally admitted,
- universally recognized,
- usual,
- vernacular,
- well-kenned,
- well-known,
- well-recognized,
- well-understood,
- widely known,
- wonted,
- workaday,
- workday