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(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Husband(noun)

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

2. Husband(noun)

   a cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman

3. Husband(noun)

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

4. Husband(noun)

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

5. Husband(noun)

   the male of a pair of animals

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

7. Husband(verb)

   to cultivate, as land; to till

8. Husband(verb)

   to furnish with a husband

Origin: [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(0.00 / 0 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.

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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

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. Denis Ester Dias:

   My husband isn't working.

2. Rasha Alturki:

   My husband will drive me there.

3. Linsday Menz:

   As my husband took the picture.

4. American Proverb:

   A good son makes a good husband.

5. Joyce Thompson:

   My husband was killed for 15 cents.

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