household name
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Noun[edit]
household name (plural household names)
- A brand name that is well known to the great majority of households.
- A genericized trademark.
- A very well-known public figure.
- 2020 January 17, Amy Chozick, “This Is the Guy Who’s Taking Away the Likes”, in New York Times[1]:
- 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.)
Translations[edit]
brand name
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genericized trademark — see genericized trademark
public figure
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