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Household vs Meinie - What's the difference?

household | meinie |

As nouns the difference between household and meinie

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 meinie is a household, or family.

As an adjective household

is belonging to the same house and family.

household

English

(wikipedia 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

    meinie

    English

    Alternative forms

    * mayne, , meiny, meynee, meynie

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A household, or family.
  • * 1485 , Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book X:
    • whan they in the castell wyste how Sir Palomydes had sped, there was a joyfull maynĂ© .
  • (archaic, or, historical) A retinue.
  • * c.1390 , :
    • That, for the tirant is of gretter myght, / By force of meynee', for to sleen dounright, / And brennen hous and hoom, and make al playn, / Lo, therfore is he cleped a capitayn; / And for the outlawe hath but smal ' meynee , / And may nat doon so greet an harm as he, / Ne brynge a contree to so greet mescheef, / Men clepen hym an outlawe or a theef.
  • * 1965 , Jack Robert Lander, The Wars of the Roses ,
    • And in the evening they went with their simple captain to his lodging; but a certain of his simple and rude meinie abode there all the night [...].
  • A crowd of people; a rabble.
  • * 1608 , , The Tragedy of Coriolanus :
    • For the mutable ranke-sented Meynie , / Let them regard me, as I doe not flatter, / And therein behold themselues [...].