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Everyday vs Household - What's the difference?

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Everyday is a related term of household.


As adjectives the difference between everyday and household

is that everyday is appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions while household is belonging to the same house and family.

As nouns the difference between everyday and household

is that everyday is (rare) the ordinary or routine day or occasion 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 an adverb everyday

is .

everyday

English

Adjective

(-)
  • appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • * 1906 , , Chapter 4: The engine-burglar,
    • When they had gone, Bobbie put on her everyday frock, and went down to the railway.
  • commonplace, ordinary
  • * 2010 , Malcolm Knox, The Monthly , April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 42:
    • Although it is an everyday virus, there is something about influenza that inspires awe.

    Synonyms

    * mundane * quotidian * routine * unremarkable * workaday

    Adverb

    (head)

    • Usage notes

    When describing the frequency of an event, it is considered correct to separate the individual words: every hour'', ''every day'', ''every week , etc.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rare) the ordinary or routine day or occasion

    • household

    English

    (wikipedia 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