Results for household

Definitions of household:

part of speech: adjective

Domestic; pertaining to a family or home.

part of speech: noun

A family living together.

part of speech: noun

Those who are held together in the same house, and compose a family.

part of speech: adjective

Of the house or family; domestic; the household, the royal domestic establishment.

part of speech: noun

Householder.

Usage examples for household:

• He saw it was the best service he could do this little girl who had suddenly become the real head of the household "The Other Girls", Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

• Such an unfortunate person should bear in mind that when a servant is employed the whole household expects her to be kind, tidy, industrious, moral, gentle, and, above all, good natured in her attitude toward all. "The Girl Wanted", Nixon Waterman

• And it bored the ladies of the Somebody household as much as it bored the father and The Boy. "A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs", Laurence Hutton

• That turned out a day to be remembered in the household of Isom Chase. "The Bondboy", George W. (George Washington) Ogden