husbands

Noun

husband (plural husbands)

1. A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
   • You should start dating so you can find a suitable husband.

   Synonyms:

   hubby, mister

2. (UK) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
3. (archaic) A prudent or frugal manager.
   • God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant thereof.1645, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times, Occasional Meditations: V
4. (dated) The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
5. A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
   • […] a withered tree, through husbands toyle,
     Is often seene full freshly to have florisht […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC
6. The male of a pair of animals.
   • Husband of the Herd1697, 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

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