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Combat vs Household - What's the difference?

combat | household |

As nouns the difference between combat and household

is that combat is a battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory while household is collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.

As a verb combat

is to fight with; to struggle for victory against.

As an adjective household is

belonging to the same house and family.

combat

English

(wikipedia combat)

Noun

  • A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
  • *
  • *:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat : "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
  • , volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat .}}

    Derived terms

    * combat pay

    Verb

  • To fight with; to struggle for victory against.
  • * Milton
  • To combat with a blind man I disdain.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    household

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
  • * 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 5:
  • Although I was a member of the royal household , I was not among the privileged few who were trained for rule.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • And calls, without affecting airs, / His household twice a day to prayers.
  • (obsolete) A line of ancestry; a race or house.
  • * 1592 , , IV. vi. 39:
  • In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, / My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Belonging to the same house and family.
  • Of anything found in or having its origin in a home.
  • Derived terms

    * Household Cavalry * household deity * household god * household name