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词汇 household-word
释义 household word
noun[ Cusually singular ]
uk /ˌhaʊs.həʊld ˈwɜːd/ us /ˌhaʊs.hoʊld ˈwɝːd/
a word or name that everyone knows: 尽人皆知的词(或名字)
McDonalds quickly became a household word.麦当劳很快就变成了一个尽人皆知的词。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Fame and famous
A-list
A-lister
acclaimed
annal
anyone
catapult
fore
go down in the annalsidiom
high-profile
hit the headlinesidiom
illustrious
legend
name
notoriety
notorious
notoriously
overexposed
world-famous
world-renowned
Z-list

Examples of household word


household word
Rushbrooke is a very great man, a great religious authority, whose name is indeed a householdword.
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Inflation has become such a householdword that many people no longer grasp its meaning.
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It is an offshoot of a bigger concern, the name of which is almost a householdword.
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His name is almost a householdword to many classes of the community there.
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It will almost certainly use a generic name—a householdword—associated with other products that already share the brand.
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He began by talking about the word "quango" which, he rightly says, is a householdword.
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We have a football club in my constituency whose name is a householdword.
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This man's name is a householdword and is known to almost everybody.
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Indeed, the parents' name is a householdword.
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The official figures do not take into account a very famous leading lady whose name was a householdword a few years ago.
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His name became a householdword.
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Although by this time aluminum was more widely known, it was by no means a householdword.
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Do you want to be a great actor or a householdword?
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He was involved in many sensational trials and became a householdword as the most dreaded hanging judge of his age.
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It made litterbug a householdword.
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