Domicile vs Household - What's the difference?
domicile | household |
(formal) A home or residence.
(legal) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode.
To have a domicile in a particular place.
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 domicile and household
is that domicile is a home or residence 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 a verb domicile
is to have a domicile in a particular place.As an adjective household is
belonging to the same house and family.domicile
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- The call to jury duty was sent to my legal domicile ; too bad I was on vacation at the time.
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Verb
- The answer depends on in which state he was domiciled at his death.
household
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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.