husband

/ˈhʌz.bənd/

noun 5verb 5name 2

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

VERB + HUSBAND

meet

Sarah met her husband at university during their first week of classes.

marry

be divorced from, be separated from, divorce, leave, walk out on

Her husband left her after twenty years of marriage.

PHRASES

husband and wife

My grandparents worked as a husband and wife team running their small bakery for many decades.

husband-to-be

Definitions

noun

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

You should start dating so you can find a suitable husband.

The husband and wife are one person in law.

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

A prudent or frugal manager.

God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant thereof.

[S]o I went and fetch’d a good Dram of Rum, and gave him; for I had been ſo good a Husband of my Rum, that I had a great deal left: When he had drank it, I made him take the two Fowling-Pieces, which we always carry’d, and load them with large Swan-Shot, as big as ſmall Piſtol Bullets; then I took four Muſkets, and loaded them with two Slugs, and five ſmall Bullets each; and my two Piſtols I loaded with a Brace of Bullets each; I hung my great Sword as uſual, naked by my Side, and gave Friday his Hatchet.

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

A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.

[…] a withered tree, through husbands toyle, Is often seene full freshly to have florisht […]

The painfull husband plowing up his ground, Shall finde all fret and rust both pikes and shields

verb

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

And for my meanes, I'll husband them so well, They shall go farre with little.

To conserve.

1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe ...I found pens, ink, and paper, and I husbanded them to the utmost; and I shall show that while my ink lasted, I kept things very exact, but after that was gone I could not, for I could not make any ink by any means that I could devise.

To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.

Land so trim and rarely husbanded.

To provide with a husband.

Thinke you, I am no ſtronger then my Sex Being ſo Father'd, and ſo Husbanded?

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

name

A surname.

An unincorporated community in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States, named after Harmon Husband.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a married man

hubby

verb — use cautiously and frugally

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

You should start dating so you can find a suitable husband.

Wiktionary

The husband and wife are one person in law.

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A great bargain also had been[…]the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her

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And for my meanes, I'll husband them so well, They shall go farre with little.

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1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe ...I found pens, ink, and paper, and I husbanded them to the utmost; and I shall show that while my ink lasted, I kept things very exact, but after that was gone I

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Land so trim and rarely husbanded.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, husband is marked as archaic, dated, obsolete, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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