husband
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.?
Proto-Germanic *hūsą
Proto-West Germanic *hūs
Old English hūs
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
Proto-Germanic *būaną
Old Norse búa
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Old Norse -andi
Old Norse bóndibor.
Old English bonda
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Old Norse húsbóndicalq.
Old English hūsbonda
Middle English husbonde
English husband
Inherited from Middle English husbonde, from Old English hūsbonda, from hūs + bonda. Calque of Old Norse húsbóndi. By surface analysis, house + bond.
Inflected forms:
form: husbands
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: husbands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: husbanding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: husbanded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: husbanded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
pos: noun
examples: You should start dating so you can find a suitable husband.
The husband and wife are one person in law.
A great bargain also had been[…]the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.
Smooth and slender and naked, Mary Rittersdorf faced her husband.
gloss: A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A prudent or frugal manager.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant thereof.
[S]o I went and fetch’d a good Dram of Rum, and gave him; for I had been ſo good a Husband of my Rum, that I had a great deal left: When he had drank it, I made him take the two Fowling-Pieces, which we always carry’d, and load them with large Swan-Shot, as big as ſmall Piſtol Bullets; then I took four Muſkets, and loaded them with two Slugs, and five ſmall Bullets each; and my two Piſtols I loaded with a Brace of Bullets each; I hung my great Sword as uſual, naked by my Side, and gave Friday his Hatchet.
gloss: The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
pos: noun
examples: […] a withered tree, through husbands toyle,
 Is often seene full freshly to have florisht […]
The painfull husband plowing up his ground, Shall finde all fret and rust both pikes and shields
He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestick and field accommodations.
gloss: The male of a pair of animals.
pos: noun
examples: Husband of the Herd
gloss: A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
pos: noun
examples: While reading her book, Sally leaned back against her husband, wishing it were the human kind.
gloss: A polled tree; a pollard.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
gloss: To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And for my meanes, I'll husband them so well,
They shall go farre with little.
gloss: To conserve.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
...I found pens, ink, and paper, and I husbanded them to the utmost; and I shall show that while my ink lasted, I kept things very exact, but after that was gone I could not, for I could not make any ink by any means that I could devise.
gloss: To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Land so trim and rarely husbanded.
gloss: To provide with a husband.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Thinke you, I am no ſtronger then my Sex
 Being ſo Father'd, and ſo Husbanded?
gloss: To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: baron
his lordship
hubby
husband
lord and master
old man
Antonyms: wife
Related words: autem cove
boyfriend
fiancée
widower
Derived words: brother-husband
co-husband
cyberhusband
ex-husband
First Husband
gingerbread husband
gusband
house husband
hubby
husbandage
husband and wife
husbander
husbandhood
husband-in-law
husbandish
husbandless
husbandlike
husbandly
husbandman
husbando
husbandship
husband stitch
husbandwoman
husbian
husman
ice husband
Ineffable Husbands
jealous husbands problem
merhusband
midhusband
Murder Husbands
retired husband syndrome
ship's husband
trophy husband
wasband
welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk
work husband
Younghusband
husbandry
husband up
husbandable
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