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houshold

houshold is the obsolete form of household.

Meaning of household

Noun

household (plural households)

  1. (collective) All the persons who live in a given house or other home; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
    • And calls, without affecting airs, / His household twice a day to prayers.1732, Jonathan Swift, The Beasts' Confession to the Priest
    Synonyms:
    ménage
  2. Entirety of work and management required to sustain the household.
  3. Legal or culturally determined unit of people living together.
  4. (obsolete) A line of ancestry; a race or house.
    • In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, / My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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Forms of houshold

pluralhousholds

Questions about houshold

What is houshold the obsolete form of?
Houshold is the obsolete form of household.

Words near houshold in the dictionary

  1. housewrights
  2. housey
  3. housey-housey
  4. Housh
  5. Houshes
  6. houshold
  7. housholds
  8. housholdstuff
  9. housie
  10. housie-housie
  11. housies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: houshold (page history and authors); household (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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