HOUSEHOLDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does householder mean? 

• HOUSEHOLDER (noun)
  The noun HOUSEHOLDER has 1 sense:

1. someone who owns a home

  Familiarity information: HOUSEHOLDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOUSEHOLDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who owns a home

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

homeowner; householder

Hypernyms ("householder" is a kind of...):

owner; possessor (a person who owns something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "householder"):

weekend warrior (a homeowner who acts as a contractor and tries to do major improvement projects on weekends (often without understanding the scope of the work to be done))

Derivation:

household (a social unit living together)

 Context examples 

At one time in his life he had been just a common hoodlum, the leader of a gang that worried the police and terrorized honest, working-class householders.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)