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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 root
- Economy means household management in ancient Greek
- Census unit
- Governments count people by household, not individual
- Gods inside
- Romans worshipped household deities called Lares
- Shrinking size
- Average household has halved since 1900
- Solo rise
- Single-person households now top many countries
white house — official residence of the us president at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, washington dc
buckingham palace — official london residence of the british monarch, 775 rooms