English
household
Household comes from Middle English houshold ‘family, household’.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500houshold‘family’
- Englishearliest quotation 1591household
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500houshold‘family’
- Englishearliest quotation 1591household
Earliest quotation: 1591, William Shakespeare, The First Part of Henry the Sixt: “In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, /…”
Every English word from Middle English houshold
Today it means
noun All the persons who live in a given house or other home; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English houshold / household