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bar barn basket blade bleach board bolt(n) bolt(v) carpet(n) carpet(v) chamber cloth coal cooler daily den domestic(a) domestic(n) door drive dust fold garbage gate gateway glass hall hang hanging hardware heat household lag landing mirror mouth move newspaper pad paint(n) paint(v) painting paling panel paper(n) paper(v) paste pension pin plug poker press property rail remote scrapbook screen sheet shower television toilet trunk walk-in wall -ware way out WC window yard

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Date: 1300-1400
Origin: house + hold 'keeping, maintaining'

household

1 noun
     
house‧hold1 S2 W2 [countable]
all the people who live together in one house [= house]:
A growing number of households have at least one computer.
Families are classified by the occupation of the head of the household (=the person who earns the most money and is most respected in a house).


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