Etymology

household

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Today it means: All the persons who live in a given house or other home; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment. Full definition →

Middle English houshold
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household · noun, adjective1

  1. Middle English · inherited fromhoushold
  2. English todayhousehold

From Middle English houshold. By surface analysis, 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”).

Household · proper noun2

  1. Middle English · inherited fromhoushold“household, family”
  2. English todayHousehold

English surname, from Middle English houshold (“household, family”), denoting someone who is a householder or is a member of a particular one.

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