HUSBAND

husband, hubby, married man

(noun) a married man; a woman’s partner in marriage

conserve, husband, economize, economise

(verb) use cautiously and frugally; “I try to economize my spare time”; “conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

husband (plural husbands)

The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.

A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.

• George Hakewill, An Apologie Or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World

A prudent or frugal manager.

A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.

The male of a pair of animals.

(UK) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.

A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.

(UK dialectal) A polled tree; a pollard.

Synonyms

• See also husband

Antonyms

• wife

Hypernyms

• wedder

• partner (may or may not be married)

• spouse (may also apply to wife)

Verb

husband (third-person singular simple present husbands, present participle husbanding, simple past and past participle husbanded)

(transitive) To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.

(transitive) To conserve.

(transitive, obsolete) To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.

(transitive) To provide with a husband.

(transitive) To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.

Proper noun

Husband (plural Husbands)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Husband is the 9347^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3480 individuals. Husband is most common among White (67.33%) and Black/African American (25.6%) individuals.

Source: Wiktionary

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Hus"band, n. Etym: [OE. hosebonde, husbonde, a husband, the master of the house or family, AS. h master of the house; h house + bunda, bonda, householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. h house master, husband; h house + b dwelling, inhabiting, p.pr. of b to dwell; akin to AS. b, Goth. bauan. See House Be, and cf. Bond a slave, Boor.]

1. The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family. [Obs.]

2. A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman. [Obs.] Shak. The painful husband, plowing up his ground. Hakewill. He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestic and field accommodations. Evelyn.

3. One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist. [R.] God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant left me. Fuller.

4. A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife. The husband and wife are one person in law. Blackstone.

5. The male of a pair of animals. [R.] Dryden. A ship's husband (Naut.), an agent representing the owners of a ship, who manages its expenses and receipts.

Hus"band, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Husbanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Husbanding.]

1. To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy. For my means, I'll husband them so well, They shall go far. Shak.

2. To cultivate, as land; to till. [R.] Land so trim and rarely husbanded. Evelyn.

3. To furnish with a husband. [R.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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