husband1 nounhusband2 verb
husbandhus‧band1 /ˈhʌzbənd/ ●●● S1 W1 noun 
WORD ORIGINhusband1
Origin:
Old English husbonda, from Old Norse, from hus ‘house’ + bondi ‘someone who lives in a house’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Gary's her second husband.
- How many husbands would stay at home and take care of the children while their wife goes out to work?
- I don't like Francesca's husband very much.
- Her big manly husband - at this moment she hated him.
- Her throat dried to think that she might have revealed things about her husband to another man.
- Mr Nicholls was, after all, a good husband for Charlotte.
- My husband was furious, so was 1.
- See, he boarded with this woman and her husband in Ambler, and the husband was kind of dopey.
- She lived with her husband and little girl in the city of Worcester.
- Valerie Hermreck brings a batch of warm-from-the-oven chocolate chip cookies to her husband and children.
THESAURUShusband/wife etc
the man/woman you are married to: · My wife’s a teacher.
the person you live with and have a sexual relationship with. Partner is often used when people are not married, or when you do not know if they are married. It is also used when talking about same-sex couples: · He lives with his partner Ruth and their eight-month-old son.
the man/woman you are engaged to: · He and fiancée Wendy Hodgson will marry in July.
a woman who is divorced: · The prince announced his intention to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee.
a woman or man whose husband or wife has died: · Imelda Marcos, the widow of the former president
formal your spouse is your husband or wife: · The rule applies to spouses and children of military personnel.
formal someone’s estranged husband or wife is one who they do not live with anymore: · She is trying to get her sons back from her estranged husband.
Longman Language Activatorthe people who are married two people who are married to each other, or who are having a romantic relationship: · An elderly couple live next door.· They're a nice couple, aren't they?married couple: · Shirley and Bob are a young married couple with two small children.
a man and woman who have recently married: · Everyone left at about midnight, leaving the newlyweds alone at last.· The hotel seemed to be full of newlyweds.
formal a married couple: as man and wife: · Terry and Meena aren't married but they live together as man and wife.pronounce somebody man and wife (=say that two people are officially married): · Mom burst into tears as the minister pronounced us man and wife.
· Are you married or single?· We've been married for 25 years.married to · Geraldine was married to the richest man in France and still pretended she couldn't afford a new outfit.happily married · Richard is happily married with two young children.
the woman that a man is married to: · My wife's career is very important to her.· Have you met the Ambassador's wife?first/second etc wife: · He remarried after his first wife died of cancer.
the man that a woman is married to: · I don't like Francesca's husband very much.· How many husbands would stay at home and take care of the children while their wife goes out to work?first/second etc husband: · Gary's her second husband.
formal the man or woman that someone is married to - use this in legal or official contexts: · You may choose to pay income tax jointly or separately from your spouse.
the person that someone lives with in a romantic relationship - use this whether they are married or not: · Have you met my partner, Ray?· The office party is on Friday, but partners aren't invited.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Mrs. Moore’s late husbandCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
(=someone who will be your wife, husband, son-in-law etc)
Mrs. Moore’s late husband· She's now left with little more than photographs to bring back memories of her late husband.· Mrs Hancock kept the white mansion and some other property interests of her late husband.· Suitum and her late husband bought their land in the early 1970s.· Olympic gold medalist Ekaterina Gordeeva is writing a memoir about her life with Sergei Grinkov, her late husband and figure-skating partner.· It never occurred to me that Karen might be grieving for her late husband.· Marion Witherspoon had married her late husband when she was twenty or twenty-one.
VERB· After the trial she left her husband and became Jaggers' housekeeper.· In these conversations, Foxwell said she counseled the younger woman to get a job and leave her husband.· It was the third trip she had made that year, leaving husband, sons and job to visit her father.· That was just before Pamela left her husband and got an apartment up in Westchester, near the college she taught in.· It is understood that Mrs Say had left a note with a neighbour saying she was leaving her husband.· Creusa, leaving her husband in the town with one of the priests, went on up to the sanctuary by herself.· Tonight, she would leave her husband and the tall house in the Burrows.· I can leave my husband on his own.
· She lived with her husband and little girl in the city of Worcester.· That does not mean that she should submit to violence or even that she must live with her husband.· But the courts will only agree that they're living apart if the husband and wife run totally different lives.· In most societies women travel to live with their husbands, whereas men tend to remain close to their relatives.· We go up several flights of stairs to the room where Rezia lives with her husband and son.· But I can not live without my husband.
· The Marchioness had lost her husband, but worse was to follow.· Some people just die, and some lost their child, husband or wife.· Yet a woman who had lost a husband or failed to get one at all, might find herself in genuine distress.· Country lost and husband and children.· She'd lost her husband and her only daughter and didn't want anything to happen to her only granddaughter.· She had lost her husband and all those she had loved because of Ireland.· But only the swiftest of action will save a woman who's already lost her husband from losing her home as well.
· He thought she would marry him when her husband died.· Marion Witherspoon had married her late husband when she was twenty or twenty-one.· Chatman had a tumor removed 12 years ago, six years before she married her husband, Dennis.· Women are working more across the board, but the biggest increase has come from women married to higher-earning husbands.· In 1973 she married her present husband, Taufik Kiemas, a well-connected businessman who owns a string of gas stations.· I sold papers until I was 17, then I married my husband.
· She met husband John at Capenhurst when he was a wages and salaries officer at the plant.· Madness, of course, but then I met my husband.· Would you like to meet my husband?· She then went on to Yale Law School where she was on the board of the law review and met her husband.· It was there she met her present husband, Ray Preis, an executive with the company space program.· He had met her husband, Vos, a young clergyman, and seen their baby son.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► ex-husbandPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► bride-/husband-/parent- etc to-be► common-law marriage/husband/wife► somebody’s estranged husband/wife
1[countable] the man that a woman is married to: - A husband and wife partnership ran a chemist's shop.
- Both husband and wife are undecided and somewhat ambivalent about having a child, or buying a house.
- If husband and wife are entertaining, then invite another couple.
- It's seems that their marriage is a lost cause in which possess the husband and wife not real affection for one another.
- Now we had to get the document that would officially make us husband and wife.
- The husband and wife, reaching the woods, separated in search of game.
- The distribution in the next generation depends on the correlation between the wealth of husbands and wives.
- The Plot A husband and wife longed for a child, and after many years the wife became pregnant.
- It was not intended to suggest that these were battered wives.
- Moreover, battered women often wind up dropping the charges as reconciliation with the abuser.
- Now the ikons of female suffering are all around us; the image of the battered woman is high fashion.
- The church has already erred on this side in the counsel it has given battered women.
- The groups most adamant about denying help to battered women were the conservative fundamentalists and some orders of Catholicism.
- The person on call made us a cup of tea - battered wives' homes are the greatest!
- They took us to the police station and then to a battered women's house at about 2 a.m.
- We have often been tempted to abandon this task; then another battered woman would come into our lived.
- In practice, the treatment of widows and deserted wives varied considerably from region to region.
Have you met my husband Roy?► see thesaurus at married2ex-husband a man that a woman used to be married to3husband and wife a man and woman who are married to each otherhusband1 nounhusband2 verb
husbandhusband2 verb [transitive] VERB TABLE
husband
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | husband |
| he, she, it | husbands | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | husbanded |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have husbanded |
| he, she, it | has husbanded | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had husbanded |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will husband |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have husbanded |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am husbanding |
| he, she, it | is husbanding | |
| you, we, they | are husbanding | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was husbanding |
| you, we, they | were husbanding | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been husbanding |
| he, she, it | has been husbanding | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been husbanding |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be husbanding |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been husbanding |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Families have been husbanding their small reserves of food.
- And he should husband his capital accordingly.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Mrs. Moore’s late husband
(=someone who will be your wife, husband, son-in-law etc)
Mrs. Moore’s late husbandPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► bride-/husband-/parent- etc to-be► common-law marriage/husband/wife► somebody’s estranged husband/wife
formal to be very careful in the way you use your money, supplies etc and not waste any- It was not intended to suggest that these were battered wives.
- Moreover, battered women often wind up dropping the charges as reconciliation with the abuser.
- Now the ikons of female suffering are all around us; the image of the battered woman is high fashion.
- The church has already erred on this side in the counsel it has given battered women.
- The groups most adamant about denying help to battered women were the conservative fundamentalists and some orders of Catholicism.
- The person on call made us a cup of tea - battered wives' homes are the greatest!
- They took us to the police station and then to a battered women's house at about 2 a.m.
- We have often been tempted to abandon this task; then another battered woman would come into our lived.
- In practice, the treatment of widows and deserted wives varied considerably from region to region.