to holdor keep household and variants: to maintain a house; to reside. Cf. house, n.1 int.phrases 4a, house, n.1 int.phrases 4b(b).

intransitive. To live in, or as though in, a house; to reside; (with up) to take shelter, remain in a house, esp. for some time. Also figurative.

To maintain and preside over a household; (also †to keep one's house) to have one's home, reside (in a place). to keep house with: to reside in…

transitive. Originally and chiefly Scottish. to take up house: †to take or rent a house (obsolete); to set up house; to become a householder.