Habitation vs Household - What's the difference?
habitation | household |
The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
A place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house.
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:
* Jonathan Swift
(obsolete) A line of ancestry; a race or house.
* 1592 , , IV. vi. 39:
Belonging to the same house and family.
Of anything found in or having its origin in a home.
As nouns the difference between habitation and household
is that habitation is the act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy 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 adjective household is
belonging to the same house and family.habitation
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* See alsohousehold
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(wikipedia household)Noun
(en noun)- Although I was a member of the royal household , I was not among the privileged few who were trained for rule.
- And calls, without affecting airs, / His household twice a day to prayers.
- In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, / My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.