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Householder

//ˈhaʊshoʊldə(ɹ)// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    The owner of a house.
  2. 2
    someone who owns a home wordnet
  3. 3
    The head of a household.

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

  4. 4
    A layperson, lay devotee, gahapati, grihastha. Hinduism

Etymology

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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