How do you pronounce "householder"?

Pronounced //ˈhaʊshoʊldə(ɹ)//.

Householder

Common synonyms include: homeowner, homeowner, beneficiary, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use.

//ˈhaʊshoʊldə(ɹ)// name, noun

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Noun

1
The owner of a house.
2
someone who owns a home wordnet
3
The head of a household.
"towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant"
4
A layperson, lay devotee, gahapati, grihastha. Hinduism

Proper Noun

"towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant"

From Middle English housholdere, equivalent to household + -er. The Buddhist sense is a semantic loan from Pali gahapati (literally “house-master”).

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