household appliance

Questions about household appliance

What does household appliance mean?

household appliance means "an appliance that does a particular job in the home".

What is another word for household appliance?

Close synonyms include home appliance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is household appliance a common word?

household appliance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.