Husband
WordNet
noun
(1) A married man; a woman's partner in marriage
verb
(2) Use cautiously and frugally
"I try to economize my spare time"
"Conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit"
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From , probably derived from , from hús ("house") and bóndi ("dweller", "householder"). Cognate with Faroese and Icelandic húsbóndi and Norwegian husbond.
Noun
- A man in a marriage or marital relationship, esp. in relation to his spouse
- Large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
- While reading her book, Sally leaned back against her husband, wishing it were the human kind.
Hypernyms
Verb
- To conserve
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- ...I found pens, ink, and paper, and I husbanded them to the utmost; and I shall show that while my ink lasted, I kept things very exact, but after that was gone I could not, for I could not make any ink by any means that I could devise.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- to nurture, to farm.