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husband English

Meaning husband meaning

What does husband mean?
Definitions in simple English

husband Verb

— If you are husbanding, you are resources carefully.

husband

— noun (= married man) a married man; a woman's partner in marriage — verb (= conserve, economize, economise) use cautiously and frugally I try to economize my spare time conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit

Synonyms husband synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as husband?

husband English » English

wife spouse man master lord male lover married man mate economize conserve save hubby consort brother-in-law bridegroom old man landlord use carefully teacher spare sister-in-law save up preserve person not waste my husband manage male animal husband one’s resources gentleman father elder eke out economise boyfriend be sparing with be economical with accumulate were the head of the family sweetheart son-in-law son sister’s husband sir reserve proprietor preceptor people

Topics husband topics

What do people use husband to talk about?
Person Life

Marriage
Social behavior Relationships Kinship Related by marriage

Husband, wife
Social behavior Relationships Kinship

Widow, widower
Person Life Marriage

Arrange a marriage
Person Life Marriage

Divorce

Conjugation husband conjugation

How do you conjugate husband?

husband · verb

Examples husband examples

How do I use husband in a sentence?

Simple sentences

You are always complaining about your husband.
How dare you speak about my husband in that disgusting way!
He is an ideal husband for me.
Her husband is usually drunk.
She waited on her husband all day long.
She divorced her husband.
She was scared to death of her husband.
She survived her husband by ten years.
My husband sends his best regards to you.
The husband wakes up his wife.
When I said that work had got busy so could we split the housework my husband pulled a face.
When Tom married Soraya, her father fell in love with and married Tom's daughter; so Tom's daughter's husband is Tom's father-in-law; and Tom now claims he's his own grandfather.
When we have a family argument, my husband always sides with his mother instead of me.
He'll make a good husband.
John is a good husband to his wife.
Joan dropped her husband like a hot potato.
A woman whose husband is dead is called a widow.
He'll be a good husband.
My husband is a very good cook.
My ex-husband no longer lives in this city.
I waited for my husband till after midnight.
I am writing on behalf of my husband, who is in the hospital.
Nancy has a hold on her husband.
John will make a good husband and father.
To tell the truth, they are not husband and wife.
I recommend a thorough checkup for your husband.
He and his wife both work and his salary is lower than hers, so no wonder he is a hen-pecked husband.
Is your husband a picky eater?
My husband damaged a nerve in his neck.
We are husband and wife.

Movie subtitles

I have a husband..
Well, we have to go there and see? but I'll be a good match for a husband.
If you feel wronged, die, catch your husband, and ask him.
There's a husband and two young children.
Um, where is your rest room? Say, what time is your husband joining us?
Would you and your husband like to join me for some smooth licks?
I work two jobs and my husband is dead.
My husband, Oscar, died in my arms. of a heart attack.
Should we lock the doors so your husband doesn't walk in on us?
It was a woman, uh, wanting me to pick up her dead husband, and I wrote down the address, but I noted it wrongly, obviously, because it didn't seem to exist.
My husband's died.
Those claims that she poisoned her first husband were never substantiated.
Mrs Clarke's husband just telephoned.
Your husband isn't aware you'll be using contraception?
I'll choose my own husband.
I'll find you a husband.
Ladies and gentlemen, I raise my glass to Captain Hubert who just earned a well-deserved third stripe. To his lovely wife, our hospital's head nurse, whose beauty and competence will support her husband's brilliant career.
Germaine, do you take Gustave to be your husband, to be faithful unto him and be part of the Church?
He's a good husband and father.
Be careful of your husband.
You have been threatening to tell me the truth about my husband since the day we met, and I'm ready to listen.
Right now, the only thing that matters is the immediate threat. Your husband. Finding out who he is and who he works for.
Your husband is not in school.
My husband is gone.
Your husband never existed.
But why do all this if your husband is always travelling?
Well, a beautiful woman, need not necessarily be true to her husband.
Your husband has helped you a lot.
Your late father and husband was a very close acquaintance of mine.
Say, what time is your husband joining us?
My husband. His barbershop quartet goes to places like Fresno and Bakersfield.
I rashly promised you a picture of myself, but you must not ask for more. I love my husband and my children.
Your husband might be suspicious if you do not attend the party.
Permit me to free my husband.
If I don't have a husband within 5 minutes, then I'm demolishing the entire house!

News and current affairs

The law would permit marital rape, limit women's movements - say, for work or study - without male permission, and even make it illegal for a woman to refuse to dress as her husband wishes.
And the reasons for her husband's political disgrace remain murky, to say the least.
Similarly, homosexual partners are generally best friends--which is rarely the case between husband and wife in a machista society.
I am a husband and father, a Buddhist, a jazz aficionado, a molecular biologist, a marksman, and a reader of modernist fiction.
I called a friend and got a few sparse details: Kris's husband was away but had hurried back.
Benazir Bhutto, in turn, placed control of the party in the hands of her husband and son.
At night--husband into the douche, daughter--out, here is Greek Max -- knock, knock, then sex, cake, bucks, kreks, feks, peks.
This culturally desiccated world is much more alien than the red desert of the Martian landscape that Tereshkova and her cosmonaut friends - including her husband - dreamed of in their youth.
The final blow came when interbank lending, which is at the heart of the financial system, was disrupted because banks had to husband their resources and could not trust their counterparties.
The wife driven to depression by her husband's infidelity.
For instance, Joyce, my former workmate, has a husband who is a diehard Manchester United fan.
She and her 72 year-old husband have, she says, longed for a child through 55 years of marriage.
Her husband's sperm appears to have been used, but news reports are unclear about the source of the egg.
The US, and other Western donors, should instead help Egypt to husband its resources, which are often misspent in an effort to placate its people.
This means that someone - a husband or mother-in-law - had taken the decision not to send the young woman to the hospital, instead keeping her in inhuman suffering for nearly a week.
She was then kept in the dungeon by her husband's family and brutally tortured for months, because she refused to work as a prostitute.
The husband of another young woman, Aisha, cut off her nose and ears when she ran away.
There is something about the narrative - a sex symbol sacrificing her fetishized breasts for the sake of her children, with her husband staying by her side - that is deeply reassuring to women in Western culture.
If she is uncomfortable, say, out-earning her husband, she is limiting both partners.
When Guo overhears fights between her sister and brother-in-law in their crammed rented room, her aspirations to get an apartment through hard work, and to start a family with her boyfriend and soon-to-be husband, begin to fade.
The judge's ruling spurred rumors that he went easy on her because her husband was related to senior provincial officials.
That exceptional spirit benefited her husband, but the country's institutions paid a high price.
She and her husband had hit upon a novel scheme: alternating power between them every four years.
It is taxing to spend all of one's time making one's husband look good, and it is demeaning to have to feign a lack of interest in issues that doubtless were part of the attraction to one another in the first place.
Rehema was divorced by her husband and disowned by her family after she failed to produce children.
In Ukraine, human rights lawyers report the troubling case of a woman who was convicted for transmitting HIV to her husband even though he had used a condom, and despite the fact that he asked for the charges to be withdrawn.
Subsequent actions by her husband's administration and her own have blocked improvement.
The mother of a Chinese journalist (now living outside the country) had been one of those who returned after 1949 to her homeland with her husband and family from a comfortable life at an American university.
Many of Srebrenica's survivors were clinging to the desperate hope that a missing husband or son might still be alive in a remote camp.
But, this time, an awakened citizenry was not inclined to readily accept that political leadership could be passed on so easily from father to daughter, from wife to husband, from father to son.

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