husband
IPA: hˈʌzbʌnd
noun
- The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
- A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
- 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.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States, named after Harmon Husband.
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "husband" in Sentences
- The wife always takes the titles from the husband.
- The husband would move to the community of the wife.
- All the children borne of the wife belonged to the husband.
- So the husband was quite mad at the wife and his grandparents.
- The wife has strongly condemn thepronouncement made by her husband.
- The conveyance treated the husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants.
- Her husband was a voracious philanderer, whose affairs infuriated his wife.
- Upon divorce, the husband must pay the wife any delayed component of the dower.
- She does admit that she wasn't in love with her closed and emotionless husband.
- It's as patient with us as a husband with a tremulous pregnant wife prone to crying jags.
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