Definition of husband Husband

/hʌˈzbʌnd/ - [huzbund] - hus•band

We found 28 definitions of husband from 9 different sources.

What does husband mean?

Noun Plural: husbands
husband - a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
		hubby, married man
		married woman, wife a married woman; a man's partner in marriage
		better half, married person, spouse, partner, mate a person's partner in marriage
		benedick, benedict a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor)
		cuckold a man whose wife committed adultery
		family man a man whose family is of major importance in his life
		house husband, househusband a husband who keeps house while his wife earns the family income

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husband (Noun)
The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
husband (Noun)
A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
husband (Noun)
A prudent or frugal manager.
husband (Noun)
A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
husband (Noun)
A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
husband (Noun)
Large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
husband (Noun)
A polled tree; a pollard.
husband (Verb)
To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
husband (Verb)
To conserve.
husband (Verb)
To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.
husband (Verb)
To provide with a husband.
husband (Verb)
To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.

husband (n.)
The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.
husband (n.)
A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman.
husband (n.)
One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist.
husband (n.)
A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.
husband (n.)
The male of a pair of animals.
husband (v. t.)
To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.
husband (v. t.)
To cultivate, as land; to till.
husband (v. t.)
To furnish with a husband.

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.]

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.

husband
The next thing to a wife. From Eng. hussy, woman, and bond, tie. Tied to a woman.

husband
Be a good husband, and you will get a penny to spend, a penny to lend, and a penny for a friend.
husband
In the husband wisdom, in the wife gentleness.