 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
household
noun: a social unit living together; "he moved his family to
Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited
until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how
many people made up his home" [syn: {family}, {house}, {home},
{menage}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Household \House"hold'\, noun
1. Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.
And calls, without affecting airs,
His household twice a day to prayers. --Swift.
2. A line of ancestory; a race or house. [Obs.] --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Household \House"hold'\, adjective
Belonging to the house and family; domestic; as, household
furniture; household affairs.
{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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
99 Moby Thesaurus words for "household":
Attic, accustomed, ancestral halls, 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
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