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单词 husband
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Definition of husband in English:

husband

noun ˈhʌzbəndˈhəzbənd
  • A married man considered in relation to his spouse.

    (丈)夫

    she and her husband are both retired

    她和丈夫都退休了。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She has been locked in a bitter battle with her former husband over access to their eight-year-old daughter.
    • Her husband, Curtis, died in 1994.
    • I was a mother, I had been a wife, but my husband was gone and most of my children had left home.
    • They obtained letters attesting to her good character and to the often-violent disposition of her late husband Eric.
    • I run a high-tech company with my husband.
    • In such households husbands are often abroad for long periods.
    • As she walked away, talking quietly to her husband, I couldn't help but feel a bit envious.
    • A husband and wife have realised their dreams after taking over a former night club.
    • For me, it's about being a better husband, a better father, a better employer.
    • Unfortunately, she lost her husband to cancer.
    • My husband thought he could strip the rotten shingles off the steep roof himself.
    • Since my husband is a builder, we decided to build a house for ourselves instead.
    • He'll turn out to be a great father and a great husband.
    • A notable painter in her own right, her experiments with light, rhythm, and abstract form influenced her husband.
    • The first shock was learning that my husband was gravely ill.
    • Lots of husbands and wives have their own special song that reminds them of each other.
    • My husband has added many pots of flowers and foliage to the existing garden.
    • He is a husband of 13 years and a father of three children.
    • I rode with my husband, Bob, on an emergency call the other evening.
    • Dave and Paula will be appearing on a show devoted to wives telling how their husbands have developed obsessions.
    Synonyms
    spouse, partner, mate, consort, man
    groom, bridegroom
    informal hubby, old man, one's better half
    British informal other half
    humorous lord and master
    archaic helpmate, helpmeet
verb ˈhʌzbəndˈhəzbənd
[with object]
  • Use (resources) economically.

    节约使用(资源)

    she husbanded their financial resources through difficult times
    Example sentencesExamples
    • While some players were tapping deep into their reserves, those with pretensions to the title were husbanding their resources in preparation for the second week.
    • The battalion 600 yards behind us, a support group husbanding tons of gasoline and ammo, began shooting.
    • They're husbanding those funds for use in the future.
    • The Army's leaders so prized this book, out of print copies were husbanded by career officers.
    • The Financial Services Authority has a statutory remit to coax punters into greater awareness about husbanding their dosh.
    • We support these proposals as important steps in a new awareness that the planet's most precious resource must be husbanded in the 21st century.
    • After all, management teams have clear responsibility for ensuring capital is effectively husbanded.
    • It has husbanded its cash because of the many woes suffered by hoteliers since 2001.
    • ‘As a sport it teaches you a huge amount of self control in actually husbanding your strength and learning to keep your temper when provoked by a bad fencer,’ she says.
    • Far too many institutions husbanded their cash resources for sunnier days, complacently believing that the time would come when wonderful buying opportunities would be there for the taking at their leisure.
    • If I have an evening performance, I slow down during the afternoon and start husbanding my energy.
    • He husbanded his strength whenever he could.
    • Obviously, when it comes to the Party footing the bill, the costs are so high that it will always seem that the resources are better husbanded for the high election season.
    • Who is responsible and accountable for husbanding the bank's highly geared capital?
    • They have also argued that they are husbanding their energies and resources for the next general election.
    • It is reassuring to know that the Scottish Executive husbands the expenditure it makes on our behalf so wisely.
    • He must sometimes wonder if he should have husbanded support more carefully against the inevitable election defeat.
    • As gatekeepers, general practitioners are accustomed to husbanding the scarce resources of the NHS, and this might look like a logical extension of their role.
    • Like their counterparts here, following a very brief pioneering stage, they spend most of their time fencing, feeding, husbanding scarce water and grass supplies and watching the market.
    • Water is the source of life, more precious than gold, to be carefully husbanded.
    Synonyms
    use economically, use sparingly, economize on, be frugal with, manage thriftily
    conserve, preserve, save, safeguard, save for a rainy day, put aside, put by, lay in, reserve, store, stockpile, hoard

Derivatives

  • husbander

  • noun ˈhʌzbəndəˈhəzbəndər
    • A person who uses resources economically.

      节约使用(资源)

      a very careful husbander of time
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A husbander, not a squanderer, of resources, which is a good attitude to have at the very beginning of a long, possibly endless, campaign.
      • Retiring in disposition, and a rigid husbander of time, Mr. Hall holds himself aloof from all literary societies, and has from the first persistently avoided all entanglement with cliques and coteries.
      • With backgrounds in document management, librarianship, and archiving, the herders, hoarders, and husbanders of documents see these activities as the keys to managing knowledge.
  • husbandhood

  • noun
    • Any homosexual man who can persuade a woman to take him as her husband can avail himself of all the rights of husbandhood under the law.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This is difficult to imagine, because his regular column writings on the delights of husbandhood and parenthood paint a picture of an enchanted, if idiosyncratic, domestic existence.
      • But the contradictions inherent in trying to marry the rightful duties and responsibilities of husbandhood, for one, to the reality of a world in the grip of a form of mass insanity was tearing me apart.
      • Juggling fatherhood and husbandhood with editing and writing doubtless keeps you on your toes.
      • He was starting a new career and needed to focus his time and energy on the responsibilities of husbandhood and the demands of his chosen vocation.
  • husbandless

  • adjective
    • She confirmed that belief years later, she wrote, when she and a female friend took their young children on a husbandless vacation.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But that's not all, for now I am husbandless as well as pregnant.
      • A fatherless child and husbandless mother were looked down on greatly, and that was one reputation I did not seek for myself or for my child.
      • In this age of easy divorces a husbandless mother attracts little attention.
      • Moreover, women with that kind of money of their own were too good a catch to be left husbandless into their twenties.
  • husbandly

  • adjective ˈhʌzbəndliˈhəzbəndli
    • Characteristic of or relating to the role of a husband.

      she leaves their home, releasing him of all husbandly duties
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She leaves their home, releasing him of all husbandly duties, and informing him that all the servants will do a better job of taking care of the house and children than she ever could.
      • Following the meal, elders from the groom's family spoke to the bride about wifely duties, and elders from the bride's family told the groom about husbandly responsibilities.
      • I told him it was his husbandly duty to go out with me sometimes, so I can show him off.

Origin

Late Old English (in the senses 'male head of a household' and 'manager, steward'), from Old Norse húsbóndi 'master of a house', from hús 'house' + bóndi 'occupier and tiller of the soil'. The original sense of the verb was 'till, cultivate'.

  • In Old English a wife was simply ‘a woman’, and a husband was ‘a male head of a household’ or ‘a manager or steward’, a sense preserved in expressions such as to husband your resources. The word is from Old Norse húsbondí ‘master of a house’. Not until the 13th century or so did a husband become the married partner of a woman. Around then the word also took on the meaning ‘a farmer or cultivator’ and also the verb use ‘to cultivate’, both of which are no longer used but are preserved in husbandry (Middle English), ‘the cultivation and care of crops and farm animals’.

Definition of husband in US English:

husband

nounˈhəzbəndˈhəzbənd
  • A married man considered in relation to his spouse.

    (丈)夫

    she and her husband are both retired

    她和丈夫都退休了。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She has been locked in a bitter battle with her former husband over access to their eight-year-old daughter.
    • I was a mother, I had been a wife, but my husband was gone and most of my children had left home.
    • My husband thought he could strip the rotten shingles off the steep roof himself.
    • Since my husband is a builder, we decided to build a house for ourselves instead.
    • My husband has added many pots of flowers and foliage to the existing garden.
    • I run a high-tech company with my husband.
    • They obtained letters attesting to her good character and to the often-violent disposition of her late husband Eric.
    • A husband and wife have realised their dreams after taking over a former night club.
    • A notable painter in her own right, her experiments with light, rhythm, and abstract form influenced her husband.
    • Dave and Paula will be appearing on a show devoted to wives telling how their husbands have developed obsessions.
    • Lots of husbands and wives have their own special song that reminds them of each other.
    • He'll turn out to be a great father and a great husband.
    • In such households husbands are often abroad for long periods.
    • The first shock was learning that my husband was gravely ill.
    • Her husband, Curtis, died in 1994.
    • He is a husband of 13 years and a father of three children.
    • I rode with my husband, Bob, on an emergency call the other evening.
    • For me, it's about being a better husband, a better father, a better employer.
    • As she walked away, talking quietly to her husband, I couldn't help but feel a bit envious.
    • Unfortunately, she lost her husband to cancer.
    Synonyms
    spouse, partner, mate, consort, man
verbˈhəzbəndˈhəzbənd
[with object]
  • Use (resources) economically; conserve.

    节约使用(资源)

    the need to husband his remaining strength

    保养他剩余体力的需要。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They're husbanding those funds for use in the future.
    • It is reassuring to know that the Scottish Executive husbands the expenditure it makes on our behalf so wisely.
    • They have also argued that they are husbanding their energies and resources for the next general election.
    • While some players were tapping deep into their reserves, those with pretensions to the title were husbanding their resources in preparation for the second week.
    • The Financial Services Authority has a statutory remit to coax punters into greater awareness about husbanding their dosh.
    • Like their counterparts here, following a very brief pioneering stage, they spend most of their time fencing, feeding, husbanding scarce water and grass supplies and watching the market.
    • Water is the source of life, more precious than gold, to be carefully husbanded.
    • Who is responsible and accountable for husbanding the bank's highly geared capital?
    • He husbanded his strength whenever he could.
    • He must sometimes wonder if he should have husbanded support more carefully against the inevitable election defeat.
    • ‘As a sport it teaches you a huge amount of self control in actually husbanding your strength and learning to keep your temper when provoked by a bad fencer,’ she says.
    • Far too many institutions husbanded their cash resources for sunnier days, complacently believing that the time would come when wonderful buying opportunities would be there for the taking at their leisure.
    • Obviously, when it comes to the Party footing the bill, the costs are so high that it will always seem that the resources are better husbanded for the high election season.
    • After all, management teams have clear responsibility for ensuring capital is effectively husbanded.
    • The Army's leaders so prized this book, out of print copies were husbanded by career officers.
    • If I have an evening performance, I slow down during the afternoon and start husbanding my energy.
    • As gatekeepers, general practitioners are accustomed to husbanding the scarce resources of the NHS, and this might look like a logical extension of their role.
    • We support these proposals as important steps in a new awareness that the planet's most precious resource must be husbanded in the 21st century.
    • The battalion 600 yards behind us, a support group husbanding tons of gasoline and ammo, began shooting.
    • It has husbanded its cash because of the many woes suffered by hoteliers since 2001.
    Synonyms
    use economically, use sparingly, economize on, be frugal with, manage thriftily

Origin

Late Old English (in the senses ‘male head of a household’ and ‘manager, steward’), from Old Norse húsbóndi ‘master of a house’, from hús ‘house’ + bóndi ‘occupier and tiller of the soil’. The original sense of the verb was ‘till, cultivate’.

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