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HOUSEHOLD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A social unit living together
Example:
the family refused to accept his will
Synonyms:
family; home; house; household; menage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("household" is a kind of...):
social unit; unit (an organization regarded as part of a larger social group)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "household"):
broken home (a family in which the parents have separated or divorced)
conjugal family; nuclear family (a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner)
extended family (a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives)
foster family (the family of a fosterling)
foster home (a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency))
menage a trois (household for three; an arrangement where a married couple and a lover of one of them live together while sharing sexual relations)
Derivation:
householder (someone who owns a home)
Context examples:
A new study at the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM) and the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech has found a connection between common household chemicals and birth defects.
(Common Household Chemicals Lead to Birth Defects in Mice, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Around one-third of all food grown and reared for humans is lost during production and transport, or wasted in households and during industrial food processing, they said.
(Model shows pathway to feeding the world, SciDev.Net)
A study of influenza virus transmission in Nicaraguan households reveals new insights into the type of immune responses that may be protective against influenza virus infection, report investigators.
(New study reveals a novel indicator of influenza immunity, National Institutes of Health)
I refused, as you can imagine, and asked my father how he could allow such a wretch to take such liberties with himself and his household.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is also found in some medicines, mouthwashes, household products, and essential oils (scented liquid taken from certain plants).
(Alcohol, NCI Dictionary)
Sententious sage! so it is: but I swear by my household gods not to abuse it.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
We may take it that the letter came out of this strange household and was an invitation to Garcia to carry out some attempt which had already been planned.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They had always done this from the time they could lisp... and it had become a household custom, for the mother was a born singer.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Yet the Abbot Berghersh was a man of too firm a grain to allow one bold outbreak to imperil the settled order of his great household.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It chiefly consisted of household linen, plate, china, and books, with a handsome pianoforte of Marianne's.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
