husband
See also: Husband
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle English husbonde, from Old English hūsbonda, from hūs + bonda. Calque of Old Norse húsbóndi. By surface analysis, house + bond.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈhʌzbənd/
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- (Northern England) IPA(key): /ˈhʊzbənd/
Noun
[edit]husband (plural husbands)
- A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
- Synonym: (endearing) hubby
- You should start dating so you can find a suitable husband.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
- The husband and wife are one person in law.
- 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:
- 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.
- 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
- 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.
- 1964, Philip K. Dick, “THIRTEEN”, in Clans of the Alphane Moon, United States: Ace Books, →OCLC; republished London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996, →ISBN, page 193:
- Smooth and slender and naked, Mary Rittersdorf faced her husband.
- (UK) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
- (archaic) A prudent or frugal manager.
- 1645, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times, Occasional Meditations: V:
- God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant thereof.
- 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, pages 273–274:
- [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.
- (somewhat dated) The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
- A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC:
- […] a withered tree, through husbands toyle,
Is often seene full freshly to have florisht […]
- 1627, G[eorge] H[akewill], An Apologie of the Power and Prouidence of God in the Gouernment of the World. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Iohn Lichfield and William Turner, […], →OCLC:
- The painfull husband plowing up his ground, Shall finde all fret and rust both pikes and shields
- 1681 September 9 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 30 August 1681]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
- He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestick and field accommodations.
- The male of a pair of animals.
- 1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- Husband of the Herd
- A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
- Synonym: husband pillow
- While reading her book, Sally leaned back against her husband, wishing it were the human kind.
- (UK dialectal) A polled tree; a pollard.
Synonyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:husband
Hypernyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- 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
- husbandry
- 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
Descendants
[edit]- ⇒ Cantonese: 蝦子餅 / 虾子饼 (haa1 zi2 beng2)
- → Japanese: ハズバンド (hazubando)
- ⇒ English: husbando
- ⇒ Mandarin: 黑漆板凳 (hēiqī bǎndèng) (obsolete)
Translations
[edit]male partner in marriage
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cushion
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Verb
[edit]husband (third-person singular simple present husbands, present participle husbanding, simple past and past participle husbanded)
- (transitive) To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
- And for my meanes, I'll husband them so well,
They shall go farre with little.
- (transitive) To conserve.
- 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.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- (transitive, obsolete) To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.
- 1672 May 29 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 19 May 1672]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
- Land so trim and rarely husbanded.
- (transitive, archaic) To provide with a husband.
- 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 116, column 2:
- Thinke you, I am no ſtronger then my Sex
Being ſo Father'd, and ſo Husbanded?
- (transitive) To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to economise
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to conserve
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Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]husband
- alternative form of husbonde
Swedish
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Etymology
[edit]hus (“house”) + band (“band”)
Noun
[edit]husband n
- a house band (group of musicians who regularly perform live on a TV or radio show or at a club or event or the like)
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | husband | husbands |
| definite | husbandet | husbandets | |
| plural | indefinite | husband | husbands |
| definite | husbanden | husbandens |
References
[edit]- “husband”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “husband”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
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