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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Attic, accustomed, ancestral halls, average, brood, chaste, children, chimney corner, classic, classical, common, commonly known, commonplace, conventional, current, customary, domal, domestic, domiciliary, everyday, familiar, family, family homestead, fireplace, fireside, folks, foyer, garden, garden-variety, get, habitual, hackneyed, hearth, hearth and home, hearthstone, home, home place, home roof, home sweet home, homefolks, homely, homespun, homestead, house, ingle, inglenook, ingleside, issue, manorial, mansional, matter-of-fact, menage, nondescript, normative, notorious, offspring, ordinary, palatial, paternal roof, people, plain, platitudinous, popular, predominating, prescriptive, prevailing, prosaic, prosy, proverbial, public, pure, pure and simple, regular, regulation, residential, residentiary, roof, rooftree, simple, standard, stock, talked-about, talked-of, toft, trite, truistic, universal, universally admitted, universally recognized, usual, vernacular, well-kenned, well-known, well-recognized, well-understood, widely known, wonted, workaday, workday
Dictionary Results for household:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
household
    n 1: a social unit living together; "he moved his family to
         Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited
         until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how
         many people made up his home" [syn: family, household,
         house, home, menage]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Household \House"hold`\, a.
   Belonging to the house and family; domestic; as, household
   furniture; household affairs.
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   Household bread, bread made in the house for common use;
      hence, bread that is not of the finest quality. [Obs.]

   Household gods (Rom. Antiq.), the gods presiding over the
      house and family; the Lares and Penates; hence, all
      objects endeared by association with home.

   Household troops, troops appointed to attend and guard the
      sovereign or his residence.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Household \House"hold`\, n.
   1. Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.
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            And calls, without affecting airs,
            His household twice a day to prayers. --Swift.
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   2. A line of ancestory; a race or house. [Obs.] --Shak.
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