: a person who occupies a house or tenement alone or as the head of a household
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebThat problem is easily solved by any householder: every five to 10 years, wash the surface and repaint it—voilà!Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2022 Is anxious to have his day in court meeting Larry householder and then, uh, Matthew Borgias attorney, uh, Carl Scheider, he’s being tried along with a householder in this trial. Laura Johnston, cleveland, 14 Mar. 2022 And the only two left are householder and lobbyists. Laura Johnston, cleveland, 21 Mar. 2022 Greening the industry is also costly, and that is expected to make the steel used in cars, buildings and householder appliances more expensive. Alistair Macdonald, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2021 Within months he was involved in a burglary in which the householder was shot dead.The Economist, 31 Mar. 2021 By the 1890s, in the suburbs of both London and Paris, it was estimated that three quarters of householders were actively engaged in tending to their gardens. The School Of Life, CNN, 27 May 2020 And, even when census workers do go later to non-responding householders, the process should go quicker than in the past. Ditched beginning with this census has been the old-fashioned paperwork. Rich Exner, cleveland, 12 Mar. 2020 On one street in North London, at least, not a single householder was seen making the gesture, unless the guy sitting on his doorstep and looking at his phone could be counted, which somehow seemed unlikely. Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 May 2020 See More
Word History
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
householder
noun
house·hold·er ˈhau̇s-ˌhōl-dər
: a person who lives in a dwelling alone or as the head of a household
Legal Definition
householder
noun
house·hold·er ˈhau̇s-ˌhōl-dər
: a person who occupies a house alone or as head of a household
specifically: one who makes a declaration of homestead