husband

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H0333100 (hŭz′bənd)n.1. A man joined to another person in marriage; a male spouse.2. Chiefly British A manager or steward, as of a household.3. Archaic A prudent, thrifty manager.tr.v. hus·band·ed, hus·band·ing, hus·bands 1. To use sparingly or economically; conserve: husband one's energy.2. Archaic To become a husband to.

[Middle English huseband, from Old English hūsbōnda, from Old Norse hūsbōndi : hūs, house + bōndi, būandi, householder, present participle of būa, to dwell; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots.]Word History: The English word husband, even though it is a basic kinship term, is not a native English word. It comes ultimately from the Old Norse word hūsbōndi, meaning "master of a house," which was borrowed into Old English as hūsbōnda. The second element in hūsbōndi, bōndi, means "a man who has land and stock" and comes from the Old Norse verb būa, meaning "to live, dwell, have a household." The master of the house was usually a spouse as well, of course, and it would seem that the main modern sense of husband arises from this overlap. When the Norsemen settled in Anglo-Saxon England, they would often take Anglo-Saxon women as their wives; it was then natural to refer to the husband using the Norse word for the concept, and to refer to the wife with her Anglo-Saxon (Old English) designation, wīf, "woman, wife" (Modern English wife). Interestingly, Old English did have a feminine word related to Old Norse hūsbōndi that meant "mistress of a house," namely, hūsbonde. Had this word survived into Modern English, it would have sounded identical to husband—surely leading to ambiguities.

husband

(ˈhʌzbənd) n1. one's (male) partner in marriage; a married man2. archaic a. a manager of an estateb. a frugal personvb3. to manage or use (resources, finances, etc) thriftily4. archaic a. (tr) to find a husband forb. to marry (a man)5. (tr) obsolete to till (the soil)[Old English hūsbonda, from Old Norse hūsbōndi, from hūs house + bōndi one who has a household, from bōa to dwell] ˈhusbander n ˈhusbandless adj

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(ˈhʌz bənd)

n., v. -band•ed, -band•ing. n. 1. a married man, esp. when considered in relation to his wife. 2. Archaic. a prudent or frugal manager. v.t. 3. to manage, esp. with economy. 4. to use frugally; conserve; store: to husband one's resources. 5. Archaic. a. to be or become a husband to; marry. b. to find a husband for. [before 1000; Middle English; Old English hūsbonda master of the house < Old Norse hūsbōndi=hūs house + bōndi <*bōandi, orig. n. use of present participle of būa to dwell (compare boor)] hus′band•er, n. hus′band•less, adj. hus′band•ly, adj.

husband

Past participle: husbanded
Gerund: husbanding

Imperative
husband
husband

Present
I husband
you husband
he/she/it husbands
we husband
you husband
they husband

Preterite
I husbanded
you husbanded
he/she/it husbanded
we husbanded
you husbanded
they husbanded

Present Continuous
I am husbanding
you are husbanding
he/she/it is husbanding
we are husbanding
you are husbanding
they are husbanding

Present Perfect
I have husbanded
you have husbanded
he/she/it has husbanded
we have husbanded
you have husbanded
they have husbanded

Past Continuous
I was husbanding
you were husbanding
he/she/it was husbanding
we were husbanding
you were husbanding
they were husbanding

Past Perfect
I had husbanded
you had husbanded
he/she/it had husbanded
we had husbanded
you had husbanded
they had husbanded

Future
I will husband
you will husband
he/she/it will husband
we will husband
you will husband
they will husband

Future Perfect
I will have husbanded
you will have husbanded
he/she/it will have husbanded
we will have husbanded
you will have husbanded
they will have husbanded

Future Continuous
I will be husbanding
you will be husbanding
he/she/it will be husbanding
we will be husbanding
you will be husbanding
they will be husbanding

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been husbanding
you have been husbanding
he/she/it has been husbanding
we have been husbanding
you have been husbanding
they have been husbanding

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been husbanding
you will have been husbanding
he/she/it will have been husbanding
we will have been husbanding
you will have been husbanding
they will have been husbanding

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been husbanding
you had been husbanding
he/she/it had been husbanding
we had been husbanding
you had been husbanding
they had been husbanding

Conditional
I would husband
you would husband
he/she/it would husband
we would husband
you would husband
they would husband

Past Conditional
I would have husbanded
you would have husbanded
he/she/it would have husbanded
we would have husbanded
you would have husbanded
they would have husbanded

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	husband - a married man; a woman's partner in marriagehubby, married manbenedick, benedict - a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor)cuckold - a man whose wife committed adulteryfamily man - a man whose family is of major importance in his lifehouse husband, househusband - a husband who keeps house while his wife earns the family incomebetter half, married person, partner, spouse, mate - a person's partner in marriageuxoricide - a husband who murders his wifemarried woman, wife - a married woman; a man's partner in marriage
Verb	1.	husband - use cautiously and frugally; "I try to economize my spare time"; "conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit"economize, economise, conservesave, preserve - to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"retrench - tighten one's belt; use resources carefully

husband

noun1. partner, man (informal), spouse, hubby (informal), mate, old man (informal), bridegroom, significant other (U.S. informal), better half (humorous), squeeze (informal), bidie-in (Scot.) Eva married her husband Jack in 1957.verb1. conserve, budget, use sparingly, save, store, hoard, economize on, use economically, manage thriftily Husbanding precious resources was part of rural life.
conserve spend, squander, splash out (informal, chiefly Brit.), fritter away, be extravagantQuotations
"Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,"
"Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,"
"And for thy maintenance commits his body"
"To painful labour both by sea and land" [William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew]
"An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her" [Agatha Christie]
"Being a husband is a full-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it" [Arnold Bennett The Title]
"An early-rising man ... a good spouse but a bad husband" [Gabriel García Márquez In Evil Hour]
"A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted" [Helen Rowland A Guide to Men] [Honoré de Balzac The Physiology of Marriage]

husband

verbTo protect (an asset) from loss or destruction:conserve, preserve, save.

Translations

丈夫节俭地使用

husband

(ˈhazbənd) noun a man to whom a woman is married. 丈夫 verb to spend or use carefully, a little at a time. He needs to husband his strength.节俭地使用ˈhusbandry noun management, especially of a farm or animals. 农场管理，畜牧业

husband

→ 丈夫zhCN

This is my husband → 这是我丈夫
I'm looking for a present for my husband → 我想要买一件送给我丈夫的礼物

Husband

HUSBAND, domestic relations. A man who has a wife.
2. The husband, as such, is liable to certain obligations, and entitled to certain rights, which will be here briefly considered.
3. First, of his obligations. He is bound to receive his wife at his home, and should furnish her with all the necessaries and conveniences which his fortune enables him to do, and which her situation requires; but this does not include such luxuries as, according to her fancy, she deems necessaries; vide article Cruelty, where this matter is considered. He is bound to love his wife, and to bear with her faults, and, if possible, by mild means to correct them and he is required to fulfill towards her his marital promise of fidelity, and can, therefore, have no carnal connexion with any other woman, without a violation of his obligations. As he is bound to govern his house properly, he is liable for its misgovernment, and he may be punished for keeping a disorderly house, even where his wife had the principal agency, and he is liable for her torts, as for her slander or trespass. He is also liable for the wife's debts, incurred before coverture, provided they are recovered from him during their joint lives; and generally for such as are contracted by her after coverture, for necessaries, or by his authority, express or implied. See 5 Whart. 395; 5 Binn. 235; 1 Mod. 138; 5 Taunt. 356; 7 T. R. 166; 3 Camp. 27; 3 B. & Cr. 631; 5 W. & S. 164.
4. Secondly, of his rights. Being the head of the family, the husband has a right to establish himself wherever he may please, and in this he cannot be controlled by his wife; he may manage his affairs his own way; buy and sell all kinds of personal property, without any control, and he may buy any real estate he may deem proper, but, as the wife acquires a right in the latter, he cannot sell it, discharged of her dower, except by her consent, expressed in the manner prescribed by the laws of the state where such lands lie. At common law, all her personal property, in possession, is vested in him, and he may dispose of it as if he had acquired it by his own contract this arises from the principle that they are considered one person in law; 2 Bl. Com. 433 and he is entitled to all her property in action, provided he reduces it to possession during her life. Id. 484. He is also entitled to her chattels real, but these vest in him not absolutely, but sub modo; as, in the case of a lease for years, the husband is entitled to receive the rents and profits of it, and may, if he pleases, sell, surrender, or dispose of it during the coverture, and it is liable to be taken in execution for his debts and, if he survives her, it is, to all intents and purposes, his own. In case his wife survives him, it is considered as if it had never been transferred from her, and it belongs to her alone. In his wife's freehold estate, he has a life estate, during the joint lives of himself and wife; and, at common law, when he has a child by her who could inherit, he has an estate by the curtesy. But the rights of a husband over the wife's property, are very much abridged in some of the United States, by statutes. See Act of Pennsylvania, passed April 11, 1848.
5. The laws of Louisiana differ essentially from those of the other states, as to the rights and duties of husband and wife, particularly as it regards their property. Those readers, desirous of knowing, the legislative regulations on this subject, in that state, are referred to the Civil Code of Louis. B. 1, tit. 4; B. 3, tit. 6.
Vide, generally, articles Divorce; Marriage; Wife; and Bac. Ab. Baron and Feme; Rop. H. & W.; Prater on H. & W.; Clancy on the Rights, Duties and Liabilities of Husband and Wife Canning on the Interest of Husband and Wife, &c.; 1 Phil. Ev. 63; Woodf. L. & T. 75; 2 Kent, Com. 109; 1 Salk. 113 to 119Ø; Yelv. 106a, 156a, 166a; Vern. by Raithby, 7, 17, 48, 261; Chit. Pr. Index, h.t. Poth. du Contr. de Mar. n. 379; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.

HUSBAND, mar. law. The name of an agent who is authorized to make the necessary repairs to a ship, and to act in relation to the ship, generally, for the owner. He is usually called ship's husband. Vide Ship's Husband.

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noun partner

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verb to protect (an asset) from loss or destruction

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noun a married man

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verb use cautiously and frugally

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