household

Etymology

From Middle English houshold, equivalent to house + hold. Cognate with Scots houshald, housald, housell, howsell (“household”), Dutch huishouden (“household”), German Low German Huushollen (“household”), German Haushalt (“household”), Swedish hushåll (“household, family”), Norwegian husholdning (“household”).

noun

1. Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; 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
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.

adj

1. Belonging to the same house and family.
2. Found in or having its origin in a home.
3. Widely known to the public; familiar.
   a household word; a household name