extended household
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.25 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A household with additional members compared to a nuclear family.
Example Sentences
- "The low incidence of extended households in my data and the high proportion of high-caste residents precludes a meaningful test of this hypothesis here."
- "For example, a household consisting of a head, wife, son, and daughter is ordinarily classified as a nuclear household, while a household containing a father, mother, head, and sister is usually classified as an extended household, even though the two are biologically identical."
- "Under the five tier system in Scotland, people who live on their own or only with children under 18 can form an extended household with people from one other household. People in extended households are counted as one household, and so can continue to meet and socialise with each other despite general restrictions on households mixing, and can stay overnight in each other's homes."