householder

See also: Householder

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhaʊshoʊldə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

householder (plural householders)

The owner of a house.
Synonym: homeowner
The head of a household.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
  towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant
(Buddhism, Hinduism) A layperson, lay devotee, gahapati, grihastha.

Derived terms

Translations

owner of a house

Bulgarian: стопанин (bg) m (stopanin)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 房主 (zh) (fángzhǔ), 屋主 (zh) (wūzhǔ)
Finnish: isäntä (fi)
German: Hausbesitzer (de) m
Hindi: गृहस्थ (hi) m (gŕhasth)
Hungarian: háztulajdonos (hu), lakástulajdonos (hu)
Macedonian: сто́пан m (stópan), сто́панин m (stópanin), со́пственик m (sópstvenik)
Marathi: गृहस्थ m (gruhastha)
Plautdietsch: Hushoola m
Sanskrit: गृहपति (sa) m (gṛhapati)
Spanish: please add this translation if you can
Tocharian B: kattāke

head of a household

Bulgarian: глава на семейство (glava na semejstvo)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 戶主 / 户主 (zh) (hùzhǔ)
Finnish: perheenpää
Greek: νοικοκύρης (el) m (noikokýris), νοικοκυρά (el) f (noikokyrá)
Hindi: गृहस्थ (hi) m (gŕhasth), गृहपति (hi) m (gŕhapti)
Hungarian: családfő (hu), családapa (hu) m, családanya (hu) f
Irish: fear an tí m (male), bean an tí f (female)
Macedonian: до́маќин m (dómaḱin)
Marathi: गृहस्थ m (gruhastha)
Sanskrit: गृहपति (sa) m (gṛhapati)
Spanish: please add this translation if you can

(Buddhism) layperson

Chinese:
Mandarin: 居士 (zh) (jūshì)
Finnish: maallikko (fi)
Spanish: please add this translation if you can