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Homework vs Household - What's the difference?

homework | household |

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

Noun

(-)
  • Work that is done at home, especially school exercises set by a teacher.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
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  • Preliminary or preparatory work, such as research.
  • Usage notes

    The term is generally used to refer to primary or secondary school assignments as opposed to college-level coursework.

    See also

    * busy work * schoolwork

    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