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)/

Noun

householder (plural householders)

1. The owner of a house.

   Synonym: homeowner

2. The head of a household.
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     towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant

3. (Buddhism, Hinduism) A layperson, lay devotee, gahapati, grihastha.

Derived terms

• compound householder

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
• Hungarian: háztulajdonos (hu), lakástulajdonos (hu)
• Macedonian: сто́пан m (stópan), сто́панин m (stópanin), со́пственик m (sópstvenik)
• Marathi: गृहस्थ m (gŕhastha)
• 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)
• Hungarian: családfő (hu), családapa (hu) m, családanya (hu) f
• Macedonian: до́маќин m (dómaḱin)
• Marathi: गृहस्थ m (gŕhastha)
• 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

Further reading

• Householder (Buddhism) in Wikipedia
• Householder (Hinduism) in Wikipedia