Housewife vs Household - What's the difference?
housewife | household |
The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work; – called also (hussy).
* 1852: Tom Taylor and Charles Reade, Masks and Faces Act II
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 housewife and household
is that housewife is the wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household 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 housewife
is alternative form of lang=en.As an adjective household is
belonging to the same house and family.housewife
English
Noun
(housewives)- Woffington's housewife , made by herself, homely to the eye, but holds everything in the world
Hypernyms
* homemakerDerived terms
* housewifely * housewifery * housewifizationhousehold
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.
