householder
Americannoun
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a person who holds title to or occupies a house.
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the head of a family.
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of householder
First recorded in 1350–1400, householder is from the Middle English word housholdere. See house, holder
Example Sentences
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The court previously heard the householder, who cannot be named for legal reasons, temporarily moved out when video footage emerged online claiming an earlier incident assumed to be an accidental electric fire was started deliberately.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
That problem is easily solved by any householder: every five to 10 years, wash the surface and repaint it—voilà!
From Scientific American ● Aug. 1, 2022
The first is the student, the second is the householder and the third is retirement.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2021
In Maine's Franklin County, for example, "the count of households with a black… householder was more than 11 times" higher in the demonstration than in the original data.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2020
They had the same effect on me as the last standing beam of a bumt-down house would have on a householder.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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