householder

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: house=hold=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

householder, n. 

 The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family.  [1913 Webster]
"Towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant."  [1913 Webster]

Compound householder. See Compound, a.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

householder, n.
1 a person who owns or rents a house.
2 the head of a household.

THESAURUS

householder

beneficiary, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use, cottager, cotter, cottier, crofter, deedholder, feoffee, feudatory, freeholder, head of household, laird, landlady, landlord, lord, master, mesne, mesne lord, mistress, owner, proprietary, proprietor, proprietress, proprietrix, rentier, squire, titleholder

ROGET THESAURUS

householder

Inhabitant

N inhabitant, resident, residentiary, dweller, indweller, addressee, occupier, occupant, householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant, settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist, islander, denizen, citizen, burgher, oppidan, cockney, cit, townsman, burgess, villager, cottager, cottier, cotter, compatriot, backsettler, boarder, hotel keeper, innkeeper, habitant, paying guest, planter, native, indigene, aborigines, autochthones, Englishman, John Bull, newcomer, aboriginal, American, Caledonian, Cambrian, Canadian, Canuck, downeaster, Scot, Scotchman, Hibernian, Irishman, Welshman, Uncle Sam, Yankee, Brother Jonathan, garrison, crew, population, people, colony, settlement, household, mir, indigenous, native, natal, autochthonal, autochthonous, British, English, American, Canadian, Irish, Scotch, Scottish, Welsh, domestic, domiciliated, domiciled, naturalized, vernacular, domesticated, domiciliary, in the occupation of, garrisoned by, occupied by.