Household

What “Household” means

Noun

1. All the persons who live in a given house or other home; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
2. Entirety of work and management required to sustain the household.
3. Legal or culturally determined unit of people living together.
4. 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.

Where the word comes from

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

Business name ideas with “Household”

Industries where “Household” fits

We suggest this word for 9 business types and industries, including:

• Household Appliance Stores
• Household Appliances, Electric Housewares, and Consumer Electronics Merchant Wholesalers
• Household Furniture (except Wood and Metal) Manufacturing
• Major Household Appliance Manufacturing
• Metal Household Furniture Manufacturing
• Nonupholstered Wood Household Furniture Manufacturing
• Other Personal and Household Goods Repair and Maintenance
• Upholstered Household Furniture Manufacturing
• Used Household and Office Goods Moving