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English
Etymology
From Middle English houshold, equivalent to 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”).
Pronunciation
Noun
household (plural households)
- Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
1975 March 13 [1975 March 7], “Chief of Staff of PLA Air Unit Dies in Training Exercise”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 50, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page E 6: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.
- Entirety of work and management required to sustain the household.
- Legal or culturally determined unit of people living together.
- (obsolete) A line of ancestry; a race or house.
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , line 39:In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, / My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.
Derived terms
Translations
Translations to be checked: "those living in the same residence"
- Arabic: بَيْت (ar) m (bayt) (house), أُسْرَة (ar) f (ʔusra) (family), أَهْل m (ʔahl)
- Armenian: տնտեսություն (hy) (tntesutʻyun)
- Belarusian: радзі́на f (radzína), сям'я́ f (sjamʺjá), ха́тняя гаспада́рка f (xátnjaja haspadárka)
- Bulgarian: домаки́нство (bg) n (domakínstvo), семе́йство (bg) n (seméjstvo) (family)
- Catalan: seguici (ca) m, familiars (ca) pl
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 家庭 (zh) (jiātíng), 戶 / 户 (zh) (hù), 人家 (zh) (rénjiā), 家裡 / 家里 (zh) (jiālǐ)
- Czech: domácnost (cs) f
- Danish: husstand c
- Dutch: gezin (nl) n
- Esperanto: domanaro
- Estonian: majapidamine
- Finnish: kotitalous (fi), talous (fi)
- French: maisonnée (fr) f
- Georgian: კომლი (ka) (ḳomli)
- German: Haushalt (de) m
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃 m (gards)
- Greek: νοικοκυριό (el) n (noikokyrió), οικογένεια (el) f (oikogéneia), σπιτικό (el) n (spitikó)
- Hebrew: מֶשֶׁק בַּיִת (he) m (mésheq báyit)
- Hindi: परिवार (hi) m (parivār)
- Hungarian: egy/közös háztartásban élők, (folksy) háznép (hu), (in certain phrases, otherwise only “housekeeping”) háztartás (hu)
- Irish: teaghlach m, teaghlaigh pl
- Italian: famiglia (it) f, nucleo familiare
- Japanese: 家庭 (ja) (かてい, katei), 世帯 (ja) (せたい, setai)
- Kikuyu: mũciĩ class 3
- Korean: 가정(家庭) (ko) (gajeong), 세대(世帶) (ko) (sedae)
- Lao: ຄົວເຮືອນ (lo) (khūa hư̄an)
- Latin: familia (la) f
- Latvian: mājsaimniecība (lv) f
- Macedonian: дома́ќинство n (domáḱinstvo)
- Manx: mooinjer thielagh f
- Middle English: houshold, hird, meyne
- Nahuatl: cemithualtin, techan tlacah
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: husholdning (no) m or f, hushold n, husstand m
- Nynorsk: hushald n, husstand m
- Old English: hīrēd m
- Old Prussian: būrwalks m
- Persian: خانوار (fa) (xânevâr)
- Plautdietsch: Hushault m
- Polish: gospodarstwo domowe (pl) n
- Portuguese: domicílio (pt) m, família (pt) f, agregado familiar
- Romanian: familie (ro) f, casă (ro) f, menaj (ro) n
- Russian: семе́йство (ru) n (seméjstvo), семья́ (ru) f (semʹjá), домоча́дцы (ru) m pl (domočádcy), дома́шние (ru) m pl (domášnije), домохозя́йство (ru) n (domoxozjájstvo), дома́шнее хозя́йство n (domášneje xozjájstvo)
- Sanskrit: गेह (sa) m or n (geha)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: домаћи́нство n, кућа̀нство n
- Roman: domaćínstvo n, kućànstvo n
- Slovak: domácnosť f
- Slovene: gospodinjstvo n
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: domacnosć f
- Spanish: hogar (es) m, agregado familiar m, núcleo familiar m, familia (es) f
- Swedish: hushåll (sv) n
- Tagalog: sambahayan
- Tajik: хонавор (xonavor)
- Thai: ครัวเรือน (th) (kruua-rʉʉan)
- Turkish: ev halkı (tr), hanehalkı (tr)
- Ukrainian: сім'я́ f (simʺjá), роди́на (uk) f (rodýna), домогоспода́рство (uk) n (domohospodárstvo), дома́шнє господа́рство n (domášnje hospodárstvo)
- Vietnamese: gia hộ (vi), hộ (vi), nhà (vi)
- Welsh: tylwyth m
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entirety of work and management required to sustain the household
Translations to be checked
Adjective
household (not comparable)
- Belonging to the same house and family.
- Found in or having its origin in a home.
- Widely known to the public; familiar.
a household word; a household name
1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words,
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.
Translations
belonging to same house and family
found in or having its origin in a home