Residence vs Household - What's the difference?
residence | household |
The place where one lives.
* Macaulay
A building used as a home.
The place where a corporation is established.
The state of living in a particular place or environment.
* Sir M. Hale
The place where anything rests permanently.
* Milton
subsidence, as of a sediment
That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
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 residence and household
is that residence is the place where one lives 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.residence
English
Noun
(en noun)- Johnson took up his residence in London.
- The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.
- But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then fights against his own majesty and kingship.
- (Francis Bacon)
- (Jeremy Taylor)
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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.
