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householding

householding noun: management of a household; housekeeping.

Noun

householding (uncountable)

  1. Management of a household; housekeeping.
  2. The fact of being a householder; ownership or occupation of a house

Adjective

householding (not comparable)

  1. Having the role of householder; managing a household.

Origin of householding

From Middle English housholding, equivalent to household + -ing (gerund ending). Compare Saterland Frisian Húushooldenge (“household”), West Frisian húshâlding (“household”).

From Middle English housholding, equivalent to household + -ing (participle ending).

Questions about householding

What does householding mean?
Householding means management of a household; housekeeping.
What part of speech is householding?
Householding can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near householding in the dictionary

  1. householder
  2. Householder's method
  3. Householder's methods
  4. householders
  5. householdership
  6. householding
  7. householdry
  8. households
  9. householdship
  10. househubbies
  11. househubby

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Adapted from Wiktionary: householding (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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