extended household
extended household · extended households
A household with additional members compared to a nuclear familyA household with additional members compared to a nuclear family.
Meaning
2 sensesA household with additional members compared to a nuclear family.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of people living in different places but forming a close support network, obliged to follow lockdown rules as if they belonged to a single household.
Forms
plural: extended households| Singular | extended household |
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Word family
1 related wordsRelatedsupport bubble
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.