homeowner

English

Etymology

From home +‎ owner.

Noun

homeowner (plural homeowners)

1. Someone who owns a house.
   • 2009 September 6, Joseph Berger, “Flood Zone Remapping Hits Hard on Long Island”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     He advised homeowners to get insurance before then so they can be grandfathered in as discretionary buyers of flood insurance in a nonflood zone.

   • 2022 June 22, Selim Algar, “Incensed owner of $8M Florida mansion ransacked by teens wants them prosecuted”, in New York Post‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-03:

     The homeowner theorized that the intruders saw that the house was up for sale and targeted it for their rager.

2. Someone who does not have title to a house, but has possession and is paying for it by instalments.
   • 2007 August 24, “Foreclosure and Taxes”, in The New York Times‎^[3]:

     The taxability of forgiven debt is set to become a pressing issue as more homeowners fall behind on their mortgages and face foreclosure.

Derived terms

• homeownership
• homeowner association

Translations

someone who owns a house

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 屋主 (zh) (wūzhǔ)

• Dutch: huiseigenaar (nl) m
• Finnish: asunnonomistaja
• Georgian: სახლის მფლობელი (saxlis mplobeli)
• German: Hauseigentümer m, Hauseigentümerin f
• Greek:

  Ancient: οἰκονόμος m (oikonómos)

• Hebrew: בַּעַל בַּיִת (he) m (bá'al báyit)
• Hindi: घरवाला (hi) m (gharvālā), घरवाली (hi) f (gharvālī)
• Hungarian: lakástulajdonos (hu), háztulajdonos (hu)
• Japanese: 家持ち (いえもち, iemochi)
• Polish: właściciel domu/mieszkania m
• Portuguese: proprietário (de casa) m, proprietária (de casa) f, dono (de casa) m, dona (de casa) f
• Romanian: proprietar (ro) m, proprietară (ro) f
• Russian: домовладе́лец (ru) m (domovladélec), домовладе́лица (ru) f (domovladélica)
• Spanish: dueño de casa m, dueña de casa f
• Swedish: villaägare (sv) c, husägare (sv) c

someone who does not have title to a house, but has possession and is paying for it by instalments

• Hungarian: házbérlő, lakásbérlő (hu), lakó (hu)