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husband

[huhz-buh

nd]

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noun

a married man, especially when considered in relation to his wife.

British. a manager.

Archaic. a prudent or frugal manager.

verb (used with object)

to manage, especially with prudent economy.

to use frugally; conserve: to husband one's resources.

Archaic.

to be or become a husband to; marry.

to find a husband for.

to till; cultivate.

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Origin:
before 1000; Middle English husband(e), Old English hūsbonda master of the house < Old Norse hūsbōndi, equivalent to hūs house + bōndi (bō-, variant of bū- dwell (see boor) + -nd present participle suffix + -i inflectional ending)

Related forms

hus·band·er, noun

hus·band·less, adjective

un·hus·band·ed, adjective

Synonyms
5. preserve, save, store, hoard.

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Example Sentences

Right now the husband has a tenure-track job at the college, and the wife has a temporary appointment.

The husband worked his butt off for his wife, and the wife worked hers off for her husband.

When the bride is ritually kidnapped by her new husband and his family, the ekori is rolled down to cover her face.

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Right now the husband has a tenure-track job at the college, and the wife has a temporary appointment.

The husband worked his butt off for his wife, and the wife worked hers off for her husband.

When the bride is ritually kidnapped by her new husband and his family, the ekori is rolled down to cover her face.

Not woman who downplay the role of motherhood in an attempt to stick it to the man or compete with their husband.

In a split second, my husband let loose both barrels, out of the window to the ground below.

And it sure makes harvesting a handful for your cereal every morning, as her husband does, convenient.

Despite suggestions to the contrary, you don't have to be dumb to trap a husband or rich to acquire a wife.

My sometimes-anxious/neurotic husband occasionally goes through nit-picky phases.

The question was whether or not she would still be submissive to her husband when she was president.

My husband can hardly see the similarities between me and my identical twin.

They were supposed to have tried to stay true to her husband.

For a brief and desperate moment, my husband declared his presentation was superior.

The husband says he did not kill his wife, who was divorcing him.

And she doubtless wants to see the continuation of the leftist, populist policies she and her husband have implemented.

Anna was almost hysterical in her worry about her husband and child.

My husband sometimes has sneezing fits that will go on for several minutes.

My husband favored me with a sigh suggesting that the family had long noted my derangement.

The defense claims the husband did not kill the woman in a bid to end a bitter divorce, as prosecutors allege.

Rania al-Baz won further fame earlier this year when her husband beat her almost to death.

As a scientist, my husband is always up for an experiment.

Katrina has a husband and three children waiting at home for her during this long expedition.

Rose's youthful innocence shines through even in newspaper photographs, as does her unswerving devotion to her husband.

My husband is the ultimate geek dad, and his kids are crazy about him.

Losing a leg or a husband with which you're perfectly happy are not, as it happens, examples of the sunk cost fallacy.

Five months ago, this womans fisherman husband died from his wounds in a tiger attack.

She knows an apple orchard killed her husband because he died of lung cancer.

Agrippina offed everyone who stood in her way, starting with her husband.

My husband has been lucky since acquiring his iPhone.

They have to go and check the blood group of the husband.

Your husband, let everybody know, tell about your husband and the project that you two work on together.

My husband lays shirt, shorts and boots on the rock.

First, she met the shy, baby-face undergrad who would become her husband.

Your husband is tracking a wounded gazelle and could be gone for days.

She gave it to the monastery as a memorial to her deceased husband.

Potter by implying that she fed her husband to death, it never offers a motive.

My husband has a wonderful garlic pasta-sauce recipe.

She must not look-and certainly must not smile-at a man who is not her husband.

Wilson a peace brooch, but peace eluded her husband and the world.

And this weekend, her husband and a couple of trusty friends killed him.

Guzman's husband ratted her out to police for allegedly abusing the child.

Tomblin, who is white, is popular in the hill towns her husband represents.

The husband saw lion tracks near the firewood, but it was almost dark.

It is poor judgement to bring your wife or husband to the university.

Noble girls were sent there because it was cheaper and easier than finding a husband for them:.

One woman sent her husband a large canvas bag full of golf balls so he could practice his golf skills from the deck of his ship.

Since my husband isn't interested in hunting, my most.

My husband has to be checked periodically, and his liver enzymes always run higher than the normal range.

Her husband was the simple one, a man happy mainly with machines.

He by her father's will was now her dear companion and husband.

However, there is that pesky report of siblings being buried as husband and wife at the pyramid builder's city.

He's nearly three, and it takes both my husband and me to keep him from getting into the real tools.

My husband is disabled, and the pain meds and psych meds sometimes leave him forgetful.

Today, after having two daughters, she works for her husband as a software tester.

She and her husband are seeking unspecified damages.

My husband has been pursuing this hobby for years and is, in fact, an instructor himself.

His fund-raising prowess forced her to make much more use of her husband than she had intended.

Then, in horror, she saw her husband and her daughter disappear into the current.

She makes dresses to support her three children since her husband disappeared on his way to his job at a shoe factory.

She makes a gesture, and when the camera pans to the husband he is shown with a carton of milk.

They didn't think a poor sailor would be a good husband.

Then my kids started getting impatient and my husband took them over to the side.

Her intended husband also lost his job when the marriage plans became known.

The police arrested a woman today whose estranged husband was shot this week by an intruder.

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World English Dictionary

husband (ˈhʌzbənd)

—n
1.	a woman's partner in marriage
2.	archaic
	a. a manager of an estate
	b. a frugal person

—vb
3.	to manage or use (resources, finances, etc) thriftily
4.	archaic
	a. (tr) to find a husband for
	b. (of a woman) to marry (a man)
5.	obsolete (tr) to till (the soil)

[Old English hūsbonda, from Old Norse hūsbōndi, from hūs house + bōndi one who has a household, from bōa to dwell]

'husbander

—n

'husbandless

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

husband

O.E. husbonda "male head of a household," probably from O.N. husbondi "master of the house," from hus "house" + bondi "householder, dweller, freeholder, peasant," from buandi, prp. of bua "to dwell" The sense of "peasant farmer" (early 13c.) is preserved in husbandry (first attested late 14c. in this

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sense). Beginning late 13c., replaced O.E. wer as "married man," companion of wif, a sad loss for Eng. poetry. The verb "manage thriftily" is mid-15c., from the noun in the obsolete sense of "steward" (mid-15c.). Slang shortening hubby first attested 1680s.

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Easton

Bible Dictionary

Husband definition

i.e., the "house-band," connecting and keeping together the whole family. A man when betrothed was esteemed from that time a husband (Matt. 1:16, 20; Luke 2:5). A recently married man was exempt from going to war for "one year" (Deut. 20:7; 24:5).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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