Homework vs Household - What's the difference?
homework | household |
Work that is done at home, especially school exercises set by a teacher.
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, title= Preliminary or preparatory work, such as research.
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 homework and household
is that homework is work that is done at home, especially school exercises set by a teacher 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.homework
English
(wikipedia homework)Noun
(-)Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.
Usage notes
The term is generally used to refer to primary or secondary school assignments as opposed to college-level coursework.Quotations
* (English Citations of "homework")See also
* busy work * schoolworkhousehold
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.