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Household vs Breadwinner - What's the difference?

household | breadwinner |

As nouns the difference between household and breadwinner

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 breadwinner is the primary income-earner in a household.

As a adjective household

is belonging to the same house and family.

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

    breadwinner

    English

    Noun

  • The primary income-earner in a household
  • Derived terms

    * breadwinning