Wiktionary
n. A machine which accomplish a household function, such as cooking or cleaning.
WordNet
n. an appliance that does a particular job in the home [syn: home appliance]
Usage examples of "household appliance".
Chews had seen many astonishing sights in his varied career, but this was definitely the first time he'd seen a household appliance fidget.
To this day their wives swear the two never go near a household appliance (their friends however claim this has nothing to do with Defy but characterises normal behaviour for male straights).
The telephone had been patented only twelve years earlier and was not yet a household appliance.
They will wait uncomplainingly for years for an operation or the delivery of a household appliance.
She moved toward them with the caution of a cat approaching a new household appliance, then abruptly leaned forward and pulled the corn to one side, revealing Renie and the others.
The swarm was no more difficult to control than a household appliance, like a kitchen blender.
Her father, William Truro, managed the furniture and household appliance department of the downtown Eaton's department store.
All life, for instance, all sustenance, all meaning (and a good deal of money) issue from a single household appliance: the toilet handle.
Carrying a large cardboard box containing a household appliance of some kind, was Larry.