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A tiny nation-state where everyone's a citizen, nobody's elected, and the fridge is contested territory.
means All the people who live together in one home, considered as a single domestic unit.
from A plain English compound, built from 'house' (Old English 'hus', the dwelling itself) plus 'hold', here in the sense of something kept, maintained, or held together — as in 'stronghold' or 'household goods'. So a household is literally the keeping of a house: the dwelling and everyone and everything bundled under its roof and care. The word has carried this 'managed domestic unit' meaning since Middle English.
Latin rootEconomy means household management in ancient Greek
Census unitGovernments count people by household, not individual
Gods insideRomans worshipped household deities called Lares
Shrinking sizeAverage household has halved since 1900
Solo riseSingle-person households now top many countries