Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who occupies or owns a house.
- noun The head of a household.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The master or chief of a family; one upon whom rests the duty of supporting and governing the members of a family or household.
- noun One who occupies a house; specifically, in law, one who owns or holds and occupies a house, or a part of one which constitutes a separate abode, and who habitually dwells therein, with others, if any, who are dependent on him.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family.
- noun See
Compound , a.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The owner of a
house . - noun The
head of ahousehold .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who owns a home
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Examples
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The person designated as the householder is the “reference person” to whom the relationship of all other household members, if any, is recorded.
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And God as householder is the way the ancient Jews and earliest Christians got their idea of how things should be run.
Understanding The Lord's Prayer With John Dominic Crossan Josh Fleet 2010
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And God as householder is the way the ancient Jews and earliest Christians got their idea of how things should be run.
Understanding The Lord's Prayer With John Dominic Crossan Josh Fleet 2010
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And God as householder is the way the ancient Jews and earliest Christians got their idea of how things should be run.
Understanding The Lord's Prayer With John Dominic Crossan The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Bizarrely enough, in the villages where a householder is statistically least likely to be burgled (in some areas of the Division literally least likely in the whole of England!) people are most worried that they will be burgled.
A Spade Is A Spade. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The householder is easier to identify, more likely to pay and much less likely to give the "street warden" a good kicking.
Archive 2008-09-01 Not a sheep 2008
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The householder is then obligated to throw a Fandango the following night.
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The householder is then obligated to throw a Fandango the following night.
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Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard -- (See on [1336] Lu 13: 6). and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower -- These details are taken, as is the basis of the parable itself, from that beautiful parable of Isa 5: 1-7, in order to fix down the application and sustain it by Old Testament authority. and let it out to husbandmen -- These are just the ordinary spiritual guides of the people, under whose care and culture the fruits of righteousness are expected to spring up. and went into a far country -- "for a long time" (Lu 20: 9), leaving the vineyard to the laws of the spiritual husbandry during the whole time of the Jewish economy.
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33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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