husband
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
husband/ˈhʌzbənd/
▶noun a married man considered in relation to his wife. ▶verb use (resources) economically.
– derivatives
husbander noun (rare),
husbandhood noun,
husbandless adjective,
husbandly adjective.
husbander noun (rare),
husbandhood noun,
husbandless adjective,
husbandly adjective.
– origin OE (in the senses ‘male head of a household’ and ‘steward’), from ON húsbóndi ‘master of a house’, from hús ‘house’ + bóndi ‘occupier and tiller of the soil’.
'husband' also found in these Oxford entries:
adultery
- AIH
- better
- brother-in-law
- conjugal
- consort
- cuckold
- curtain lecture
- dot
- dowager
- dower
- dower house
- dowry
- estrange
- ex
- ex-
- father-in-law
- feme sole
- gamete
- grass widow
- henpeck
- house husband
- hubby
- husbandman
- husbandry
- hypercorrection
- jointure
- legal separation
- maintenance
- man
- marital
- marriage
- marry
- matrilocal
- morganatic
- mother-in-law
- Mr Right
- old man
- other
- paraphernalia
- patrilocal
- philander
- pin money
- polyandry
- polygamy
- prince consort
- quarantine
- Rom
- sati
