different between residential vs household

English

Adjective

residential (comparative more residential, superlative most residential)

1. Of or pertaining to a place of personal residence or to a location for such places.

2. Used as a residence or by residents.
3. Of or pertaining to residency.

Derived terms

• residential treatment

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Noun

residential (plural residentials)

1. A trip during which people temporarily live together.

English

Etymology

From Middle English houshold, equivalent to house +? hold. Cognate with Scots houshald, housald, housell, howsell (“household”), Dutch huishouden (“household”), German Low German Huushollen (“household”), German Haushalt (“household”), Swedish hushåll (“household, family”), Norwegian husholdning (“household”).

Pronunciation

• (UK): IPA^(key): /?ha?sh??ld/
• (US): enPR: hous?h?ld, IPA^(key): /?ha?sho?ld/

Noun

household (plural households)

1. 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.

   • 1732, Jonathan Swift, The Beasts' Confession to the Priest

     And calls, without affecting airs, / His household twice a day to prayers.

2. (obsolete) A line of ancestry; a race or house.
   • 1592, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, IV. vi. 39:

     In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, / My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.

Translations

Adjective

household (not comparable)

1. Belonging to the same house and family.
2. Found in or having its origin in a home.
3. Widely known to the public; familiar.

   a household word; a household name

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