Household vs Homestead - What's the difference?
household | homestead |
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.
a house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm
the place that is one's home
(South Africa) A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family
The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
* W. Tooke
As nouns the difference between household and homestead
is that household is collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment while homestead is a house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm.As an adjective household
is belonging to the same house and family.As a verb homestead is
to acquire or settle on land as a homestead.household
English
(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.
Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* Household Cavalry * household deity * household god * household namehomestead
English
Noun
(wikipedia homestead) (en noun)- (Dryden)
- We can trace them back to a homestead on the Rivers Volga and Ural.