household

Meanings

Noun

• Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
• A line of ancestry; a race or house.

Adjective

• Belonging to the same house and family.
• Found in or having its origin in a home.
• Widely known to the public; familiar.

Origin

• From Middle English houshold, equivalent to house + hold. Cognate with Scots houshald, housald, housell, howsell, Dutch huishouden, German Low German Huushollen, German Haushalt, Swedish hushåll, Norwegian husholdning.