Household

Household

The household (HH; oikos ancient Greek: οἶκος, plural: οἶκοι) is "the basic residential unit in which economic production, consumption, inheritance, child rearing, and shelter are organized and carried out"; "may or may not be synonymous with family".

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Famous quotes containing the word household:

    “Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.”
    —Beverly Jones (b. 1927)

    “Except that household virtue, most uncommon,
    Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “One rational voice is dumb: over a grave
    The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved.
    Sad is Eros, builder of cities,
    And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)