household
household is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A line of ancestory; a race or house. [Obs.] Shak.
- 2.Belonging to the house and family; domestic; as, household furniture; household affairs. Household bread, bread made in the house for common use; hence, bread that is not of the finest quality. [Obs.] -- Household gods (Rom. Antiq.), the gods presiding over the house and family; the Lares and Penates; hence, all objects endeared by association with home. -- Household troops, troops appointed to attend and guard the sovereign or his residence.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- adobe
- ammunition
- and
- arms
- baggage
- betacism
- bilingual
- brick
- brown
- calico
- call
- cambric
- cashmere
- cement
- chaste
- chrestomathy
- clapboard
- clay
- come
- common
- commonplace
- comparative
- compo
- composition
- concrete
- confusion
- crockery
- current
- daubing
- dead
- dialect
- dialectic
- dry
- express
- fact
- food
- fuel
- genius
- glossology
- glottology
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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