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Definition husband
Etymology
From Middle English husbonde, housbonde, from Old English h?sbonda, h?sbunda (“male head of a household, householder, master of a house”), probably from Old Norse húsbóndi (“master of house”), from hús (“house”) + bóndi (“dweller, householder”), equivalent to house + bond (“serf, slave", originally, "dweller”).
Bond in turn represents a formation derived from the present participle of WestScand. búa, EastScand. bôa = to build, plow; cf. German bauen, der Bauende. Cognate with Icelandic húsbóndi (“head of household”), Faroese húsbóndi (“husband”), Norwegian husbond (“head of household, husband”), Swedish husbonde (“master”), Danish husbond (“husband”) (< Old Danish husbonde).
Noun
husband (plural husbands)
- (obsolete) The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
- (obsolete) A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
- (archaic) A prudent or frugal manager.
- A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
- The male of a pair of animals.
- (Britain) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
- A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
- (Britain dialectal) A polled tree; a pollard.
Verb
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.
- (transitive) To conserve.
- (transitive, obsolete) To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.
- (transitive) To provide with a husband.
- (transitive) To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
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