householder
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈhaʊshoʊldə(ɹ)/
name
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English housholdere, equivalent to household + -er. The Buddhist sense is a semantic loan from Pali gahapati (literally “house-master”).
- The owner of a house.
- The head of a household.
“towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant”
- A layperson, lay devotee, gahapati, grihastha.