husband

Meaning

Noun

1. A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
2. A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
3. A prudent or frugal manager.
4. The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
5. A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
6. The male of a pair of animals.
7. A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position; a husband pillow.
8. A polled tree; a pollard.

Verb

1. To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
2. To conserve.
3. (obsolete) To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.
4. To provide with a husband.
5. To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈhʌz.bənd/

Etymology

From Middle English husbonde, housbonde, from Old English hūsbonda, hūsbunda (“male head of a household, householder, master of a house”), from Old Norse húsbóndi (“master of house”), from hús (“house”) + bóndi (“dweller, householder”), equivalent to house + bond (“serf, slave", originally, "dweller”).
Bond in turn represents a formation derived from the present participle of West Scandinavian búa, East Scandinavian bôa = to build, plow; compare German bauen, der Bauende. Cognate with Icelandic húsbóndi (“head of household”), Faroese húsbóndi (“husband”), Norwegian husbond (“head of household, husband”), Swedish husbonde (“master”), Danish husbond (“husband”) (< Old Danish husbonde).

Sentences

Only get me back to my husband and kids .