Associations to the word «Husband»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

HUSBAND, noun. A married man; a woman's partner in marriage.
HUSBAND, verb. Use cautiously and frugally; "I try to economize my spare time"; "conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats