Definition of "householder"

householder

/ˈhaʊshoʊldə(ɹ)/

noun
plural householders
1. The owner of a house.
2. The head of a household.
  Quotations
  towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant
  1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
3. (Buddhism) , (Hinduism) A layperson, lay devotee, gahapati, grihastha.