husband

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
    — You should start dating so you can find a suitable husband.
  2. A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist. UK
  3. A prudent or frugal manager. archaic
    — God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant thereof.
  4. The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder. dated
  5. A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
    — […] a withered tree, through husbands toyle, Is often seene full freshly to have florisht […]
  6. The male of a pair of animals.
    — Husband of the Herd
  7. A 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.
  8. A polled tree; a pollard. UK,dialectal
动词 v.
  1. To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise. transitive
    — And for my meanes, I'll husband them so well, They shall go farre with little.
  2. To conserve. transitive
    — 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.
  3. To till; cultivate; farm; nurture. obsolete,transitive
    — Land so trim and rarely husbanded.
  4. To provide with a husband. archaic,transitive
    — Thinke you, I am no ſtronger then my Sex Being ſo Father'd, and ſo Husbanded?
  5. To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own. transitive

词形变化

husbands plural husbands present,singular,third-person husbanding participle,present husbanded participle,past husbanded past

词汇关系

近义词
baron his lordship hubby husband lord and master old man
反义词
wife
上位词
wedder partner spouse lover significant other
下位词
benedict betty cot-betty cot-quean henhussy househusband husman
衍生词
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相关词
autem cove boyfriend fiancée widower
并列词
wife

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.?
Proto-Germanic *hūsą
Proto-West Germanic *hūs
Old English hūs
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
Proto-Germanic *būaną
Old Norse búa
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Old Norse -andi
Old Norse bóndibor.
Old English bonda
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Old Norse húsbóndicalq.
Old English hūsbonda
Middle English husbonde
English husband
Inherited from Middle English husbonde, from Old English hūsbonda, from hūs + bonda. Calque of Old Norse húsbóndi. By surface analysis, house + bond.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.?
Proto-Germanic *hūsą
Proto-West Germanic *hūs
Old English hūs
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
Proto-Germanic *būaną
Old Norse búa
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Old Norse -andi
Old Norse bóndibor.
Old English bonda
▲
Old Norse húsbóndicalq.
Old English hūsbonda
Middle English husbonde
English husband
Inherited from Middle English husbonde, from Old English hūsbonda, from hūs + bonda. Calque of Old Norse húsbóndi. By surface analysis, house + bond.
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