Definitions for husband
ˈhʌz bəndhus·band

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. husband, hubby, married man(verb)

   a married man; a woman's partner in marriage

2. 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"

Webster Dictionary(2.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Husband(noun)

   the male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family

   Etymology: [OE. hosebonde, husbonde, a husband, the master of the house or family, AS. hsbonda master of the house; hs house + bunda, bonda, householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. hsbndi house master, husband; hs house + bandi dwelling, inhabiting, p. pr. of ba to dwell; akin to AS. ban, Goth. bauan. See House Be, and cf. Bond a slave, Boor.]

2. Husband(noun)

   a cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman

   Etymology: [OE. hosebonde, husbonde, a husband, the master of the house or family, AS. hsbonda master of the house; hs house + bunda, bonda, householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. hsbndi house master, husband; hs house + bandi dwelling, inhabiting, p. pr. of ba to dwell; akin to AS. ban, Goth. bauan. See House Be, and cf. Bond a slave, Boor.]

3. Husband(noun)

   one who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist

   Etymology: [OE. hosebonde, husbonde, a husband, the master of the house or family, AS. hsbonda master of the house; hs house + bunda, bonda, householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. hsbndi house master, husband; hs house + bandi dwelling, inhabiting, p. pr. of ba to dwell; akin to AS. ban, Goth. bauan. See House Be, and cf. Bond a slave, Boor.]

4. Husband(noun)

   a married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife

   Etymology: [OE. hosebonde, husbonde, a husband, the master of the house or family, AS. hsbonda master of the house; hs house + bunda, bonda, householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. hsbndi house master, husband; hs house + bandi dwelling, inhabiting, p. pr. of ba to dwell; akin to AS. ban, Goth. bauan. See House Be, and cf. Bond a slave, Boor.]

5. Husband(noun)

   the male of a pair of animals

   Etymology: [OE. hosebonde, husbonde, a husband, the master of the house or family, AS. hsbonda master of the house; hs house + bunda, bonda, householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. hsbndi house master, husband; hs house + bandi dwelling, inhabiting, p. pr. of ba to dwell; akin to AS. ban, Goth. bauan. See House Be, and cf. Bond a slave, Boor.]

6. Husband(verb)

   to direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy

   Etymology: [OE. hosebonde, husbonde, a husband, the master of the house or family, AS. hsbonda master of the house; hs house + bunda, bonda, householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. hsbndi house master, husband; hs house + bandi dwelling, inhabiting, p. pr. of ba to dwell; akin to AS. ban, Goth. bauan. See House Be, and cf. Bond a slave, Boor.]

7. Husband(verb)

   to cultivate, as land; to till

   Etymology: [OE. hosebonde, husbonde, a husband, the master of the house or family, AS. hsbonda master of the house; hs house + bunda, bonda, householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. hsbndi house master, husband; hs house + bandi dwelling, inhabiting, p. pr. of ba to dwell; akin to AS. ban, Goth. bauan. See House Be, and cf. Bond a slave, Boor.]

8. Husband(verb)

   to furnish with a husband

   Etymology: [OE. hosebonde, husbonde, a husband, the master of the house or family, AS. hsbonda master of the house; hs house + bunda, bonda, householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. hsbndi house master, husband; hs house + bandi dwelling, inhabiting, p. pr. of ba to dwell; akin to AS. ban, Goth. bauan. See House Be, and cf. Bond a slave, Boor.]

Freebase(3.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Husband

   A husband is a male lifetime partner in a marital relationship. The rights and obligations of the husband regarding his spouse, others, and his status in the community and in law, vary between cultures and has varied over time.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Husband

   huz′band, n. a married man: (B.) a man to whom a woman is betrothed: one who manages affairs with prudence: (naut.) the owner of a ship who manages its concerns in person.—v.t. to supply with a husband: to manage with economy.—n. Hus′bandage, allowance or commission of a ship's husband.—adjs. Hus′bandless (Shak.), without a husband; Hus′bandly, frugal, thrifty.—ns. Hus′bandman, a working farmer: one who labours in tillage; Hus′bandry, the business of a farmer: tillage: economical management: thrift. [M. E. husbonde—A.S. húsbonda, Ice. húsbóndi—hús, a house, búandi, inhabiting, pr.p. of Ice. búa, to dwell. Cf. Ger. bauen, to till.]

The Roycroft Dictionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. husband

   A booby prize in life's lottery.

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. HUSBAND

   The next thing to a wife. From Eng. _hussy_, woman, and _bond_, tie. Tied to a woman.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. husband

   An agent appointed by deed, executed by all the owners, with power to advance and lend, to make all payments, to receive the prices of freights, and to retain all claims. But this office gives him no authority to insure or to borrow money; and he is to render a full account to his employers.

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1. husband

   A person that is married.

   My future husband is a beautiful understanding gentleman and soul.

   Submitted by MaryC on March 20, 2020  

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1. husband

   The husband symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the husband symbol and its characteristic.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'husband' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #897

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'husband' in Written Corpus Frequency: #958

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'husband' in Nouns Frequency: #362

How to pronounce husband?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of husband in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of husband in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of husband in a Sentence

1. Maria Lozbin:

   My husband had wanted to come back to his homeland all his life, he came back when it was all closed here, when it was prohibited to come here. He crossed through barbed wire.

2. Lyle Mitchell:

   She said :' I love my husband, I am not hurtin' him,' she said,' Then I knew I was over my head. I can't do this.'.

3. James Comey:

   In what kind of marriage, to what kind of man, does a spouse conclude there is only a 99 percent chance her husband didn’t do that?

4. Eric Foley:

   First lady Ri seems to have been portrayed as offering guidance – not to her husband, of course, but to the factory workers. It is rare for anyone other than Kim Jong Un, or Kim Jong Il or Kim Il Sung before him, to publicly offer guidance to anyone, even at the highest level, most trusted people are rarely ever shown doing that. So this certainly shows a high level of official trust in her. It also suggests an effort to bolster and soften the public positioning of the Pyongyang line to have him visit a cosmetics factory, and have them both appearing to offer guidance to the workers.

5. Pierce County Sheriff Department:

   The missing man reportedly often went hiking with his dog, but did not leave a note where he was going and had failed to return home after dark, the man's wife reported finding recent internet searches by her husband for geocaching in the Evans Creek area.

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