ex-husbandnoun [ C ]
uk/ˌeksˈhʌz.bənd/us/ˌeksˈhʌz.bənd/Someone's ex-husband is the man they were once married to.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships
- adulteress
- affinal
- as husband and wife idiom
- be an item idiom
- be shacked up idiom
- hitched
- honest
- husband
- intermarriage
- involvement
- marriage equality
- marriage guidance
- marriageable
- marry
- marry in haste, repent at leisure idiom
- matrimonial
- shack up
- something
- together
- wedlock
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Examples from literature
- Her ex-husband had been a college friend of the Doctor.
- His mother brought him to me while trying to resolve a conflict with her ex-husband about the boy's treatment.