Definition of "householder" []

• One who occupies or owns a house. (noun)
• The head of a household. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The person designated as the householder is the “reference person” to whom the relationship of all other household members, if any, is recorded."
• "Bizarrely enough, in the villages where a householder is statistically least likely to be burgled (in some areas of the Division literally least likely in the whole of England!) people are most worried that they will be burgled."
• "And God as householder is the way the ancient Jews and earliest Christians got their idea of how things should be run."