Dictionary

household name en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. A brand name that is well known to the great majority of households.
2. A genericized trademark.
3. A very well-known public figure.
   • [Jean] Twenge […] isn’t necessarily a household name like her sometimes collaborator Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and the author of the megahit “The Anxious Generation,” which has spent 75 weeks hovering near the top of the New York Times best-seller list. 2025 September 6, Catherine Pearson, “She Started the Debate About Kids and Phones. Now She Wants to End It.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
   • Instagram has revolutionized shopping, dealt a near-death blow to women’s magazines, taken celebrities from TV and movie screens to our fingertips and made Shih Tzus and personal trainers household names. (At least in some households.) 2020 January 17, Amy Chozick, “This Is the Guy Who’s Taking Away the Likes”, in New York Times:

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Synonyms

household word

Translations (9)

de allseits bekanntes Gesicht (public figure) · de Begriff (brand name) · de vertrauter Name (brand name) · cmn 家喻户晓的品牌 (brand name) · cmn 知名人士 (public figure) · fi superjulkkis (public figure) · de bekannter Name (brand name) · ru изве́стный бренд (brand name) · fi tunnettu tavaramerkki (brand name)