Meaning of husband | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
2. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
3. first-person singular present indicative of esposar
4. To protect (an asset) from loss or destruction:conserve, preserve, save.
5. A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
   UK
6. An unincorporated community in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States, named after Harmon Husband.
   countable, uncountable
7. a man to whom a woman is married. man زَوْج съпруг marido manžel der Ehemann ægtemand; mand σύζυγοςmarido, esposo (abielu)mees شوهر aviomies mariבעל पति muž, suprug férj suami eiginmaður marito 夫 남편 vyras vīrs; laulāts draugs suami echtgenootmannmąż میړه marido soţ муж manžel mož suprug äkta man, make สามี koca, eş 丈夫 чоловік شوہر người chồng 丈夫
8. A prudent or frugal manager.
   archaic
9. to spend or use carefully, a little at a time. He needs to husband his strength. spaar يَقْتَصِد في اسْتِعمال، يَدَّخِر харча/използвам икономично poupar hospodařit (s) sparsam umgehen mit økonomisere χρησιμοποιώ με μέτρο ahorrar; administrar; dosificar, usar con cuentagotas säästma با صرفه جوئي اداره كردن säästää ménager לְנַצֵל בְּיעִילוּת मितव्ययता के साथ प्रबंध करना štedljivo gospodariti (upotrebljavati), ekonomizirati (jól) gazdálkodik (vmivel) menghemat treina; halda vel á risparmiare 節...
10. The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
    dated
11. management, especially of a farm or animals. boerdery زِراعَه، فِلاحَه селско стопанство administração hospodaření die Landwirtschaft landbrug διαχείριση, αγροτική οικονομία gestión de la agricultura y el ganado majapidamine گاوداری maanviljely agriculture; gestionחקלאות कृषिकर्म )štedljivo) gospodarenje; poljoprivredno gospodarenje mezőgazdaság, állattenyésztés pengelolaan pertanian atau peternakan búskapur; (bú)stjórn; hagsÿni í búskap amministrazione 農業 경작, 축산 ūkininkavimas, gyvulininkystė...
    especially
12. A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
13. esposo, marido.
14. The male of a pair of animals.
15. A man joined to another person in marriage; a male spouse.
16. A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
17. Chiefly British A manager or steward, as of a household.
    Chiefly British
18. A polled tree; a pollard.
    UK, dialectal
19. Archaic A prudent, thrifty manager.
    Archaic
20. To use sparingly or economically; conserve: husband one's energy.
21. Archaic To become a husband to.
    Archaic

Equivalents

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.”

“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.”

“[…] 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.”

“Husband of the Herd”

“While reading her book, Sally leaned back against her husband, wishing it were the human kind.”

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