householder

/ˈhaʊshoʊldə(ɹ)/

householder · name — A surname.

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householder is pronounced /ˈhaʊshoʊldə(ɹ)/.

Etymology

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

name

The owner of a house.
The head of a household.e.g.“towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant” — 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
A layperson, lay devotee, gahapati, grihastha.

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