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husband
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Husband \Hus"band\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Husbanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Husbanding.]
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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.
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To cultivate, as land; to till. [R.]
Land so trim and rarely husbanded.
--Evelyn. To furnish with a husband. [R.]
--Shak.
Husband \Hus"band\, n. [OE. hosebonde, husbonde, a husband, the master of the house or family, AS. h?sbonda master of the house; h?s house + bunda, bonda, householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. h?sb[=o]ndi house master, husband; h?s house + b?andi dwelling, inhabiting, p. pr. of b?a to dwell; akin to AS. b?an, Goth. bauan. See House Be, and cf. Bond a slave, Boor.]
The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family. [Obs.]
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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.
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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.
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A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.
The husband and wife are one person in law.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English husbonda "male head of a household," probably from Old Norse husbondi "master of the house," from hus "house" (see house (n.)) + bondi "householder, dweller, freeholder, peasant," from buandi, present participle of bua "to dwell" (see bower). Beginning late 13c., replaced Old English wer as "married man," companion of wif, a sad loss for English poetry. Slang shortening hubby first attested 1680s.
"manage thriftily," early 15c., from husband (n.) in an obsolete sense of "steward" (mid-15c.). Related: Husbanded; husbanding.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (lb en obsolete) The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder. 2 (lb en obsolete) A tiller of the ground; a husbandman. 3 (lb en archaic) A prudent or frugal manager. 4 A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise. 2 (context transitive English) To conserve. 3 (context transitive obsolete English) To till; cultivate; farm; nurture. 4 (context transitive English) To provide with a husband. 5 (context transitive English) To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
WordNet
n. a married man; a woman's partner in marriage [syn: hubby, married man] [ant: wife]
Wikipedia
A husband is a male in a marital relationship. The rights and obligations of a husband regarding his spouse, others, and his status in the community and in law, vary between cultures and have varied over time.
In monogamous cultures, there may be only two parties to a marriage. This is enforced by legal codes which outlaw bigamy. In polygamous cultures, there may be more than two parties to a marriage.
In heterosexual marriages, the husband was traditionally regarded as the head of the household and was expected to be the sole provider or breadwinner, a role which is still maintained in some cultures which are sometimes described as paternalistic.
The term continues to be applied to such a man who has separated from his spouse and ceases to be applied to him only when his marriage has come to an end following a legally recognized divorce or the death of his spouse. On the death of his spouse, a husband is referred to as a widower and after a divorce a man may be referred to as "ex-husband" of his former spouse.
In today's society a husband is not necessarily considered the breadwinner of the family, especially if his spouse has a more financially rewarding occupation or career. In such cases, it is not uncommon for a husband to be considered a stay-at-home father if the married couple have children.
A husband is a male participant in a marriage
Husband may also refer to:
Husband is the surname of:
- Charles Husband (1908–1983), English architect and consulting engineer
- Cody Husband (born 1988), Canadian Football League player
- Gary Husband (born 1960), British jazz and rock drummer, pianist and bandleader
- Herman Husband (1724–1795), American politician, radical, Quaker and preacher
- Jackie Husband (1918–1992), Scottish footballer and manager
- James Husband (footballer) (born 1994), English footballer
- Jimmy Husband (born 1947), English retired footballer
- John Husband (1839–1919), British politician
- Les Husband (1898–1970), Australian rules footballer
- Rick Husband (1957–2003), American astronaut
- Ron Husband (born 1950), American animator
- Stephen Husband (born 1990), Scottish footballer
- Tom Husband (born 1936), Scottish engineer and professor
- William Husband (1822–1887), British civil and mechanical engineer
- William Husband (footballer), Scottish footballer in the early decades of the 20th century
Usage examples of "husband".
They all shuffle, all these strange lonely children of God, these mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, husbands and wives whose noisy aberrations are safely muffled now by drugs.
So, though Rosemary West may have physically abused him, neither she nor her husband were anxious to relinquish Steven McAvoy once he was in her hands.
Indeed, it is more than likely that the first person to be suspended from the beams in the cellar of 25 Cromwell Street and sexually abused was Rosemary West herself, and that she and her husband then decided to subject other people to the experience.
What would happen if she finally confessed to him that Bill had been an abusive husband?
Out of politeness the countess looked at her husband before accepting the invitation, but he cried out, without ceremony, that he was ready to go if I took the whole family.
She ached for the return of her husband, for the love she had apparently lost.
Where is the woman who will patiently acquiesce in the reserve of her husband who shares his confidence with another?
Towards the end of the year 1728 my mother returned to Venice with her husband, and as she had become an actress she continued her artistic life.
She had made it easy for Addis to get Rhys alone because she wanted men she could trust beside her husband.
Her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides Pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of frigid politeness.
The husband married again, and on his return to Massachusetts, his ex-wife petitioned the Massachusetts court to adjudge him in contempt for failing to make payments for her separate support under the earlier Massachusetts decree.
I gave in, saying that I could not refuse anything to the adorable woman who had honoured me with the name of husband.
I always looked upon her as your daughter, and my husband knew it, but far from being angry, he used to adore her.
Solitude had killed every power in her save vanity, and the form her vanity took was peculiarly irritating to her husband, and in a lesser degree to her daughter, for neither the Elder nor Loo would have founded self-esteem on adventitious advantages of upbringing.
Stirpium adversaria nova, but when I wish to consult it I am obliged to wait until my husband or my chaplain or my cousin Richard has time to translate for me.