Someone who owns a home

Usage examples of householder.

At one point, though, an artilleryman told the story of a fine house in his town, where the cries of a ghostly child echoed in the rooms at night, to the consternation of the householders.

In the smoggy gloaming, he went through the brickwork warrens of Griss Fell, past householders scrubbing their porches of the grit of machinofacture and graffitied coils, chatting from window to window across the little streets.

No one, not the regnant nor anyone else, shall demand of the householders of Freeburg any requisition or aid.

Jamie, as householder, stepped forward to fling the door open and bid the firstfoot welcome.

My aunt is a successful householder in the town and she manages what he brings home and manufactures goods for him to trade, finishing quernstones, mostly, in the workshop.

The houses around Roundwood were visited and the householders questioned about suspicious sightings or unusual queries by strangers about directions around the area.

He temporarily banished all but householders and their families to country districts not nearer than a hundred miles from the City, appointed a rationing-board composed of ex-Consuls, and prohibited public banquets, even on his own birthday.

I must have an assurance from the mouths of two householders that you will never commit such a crime.

Which usually meant, as was the way with those old jossers well above the pensionable age, talking about the dim and distant past when a pint of beer was a pint of beer and the sound of a horse-drawn cart approaching along the road outside was enough to send every self-respecting householder running for his dustpan and broom.

If the individual landowner or mineral-owner disappears altogether from the world, he will probably be replaced over large areas by tenants with considerable security of tenure, by householders and by licensees under collective proprietors.

Further examination showed that every cabin had its tenant, no one of the party that remained within the palisades being a householder.

When young householders took their growing wealth and tax base with them from the cities to the suburbs, they created a economic, generational, and cultural division between them and the cities.

Behind him, cops realized their trouserless condition and appealed plaintively to householders to notify headquarters of their state.

You cannot bail me yourself, but you can easily get a householder to do so.

Thank you, I am grateful for your kindness, but you are a foreigner, and sureties have to be householders.