husband
/ˈhʌzbənd/ noun A1- 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.
- The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
- A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
- The male of a pair of animals.
- 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.
Plural husbands
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“When the house is emptied of people,” said Nagaina to her husband, “he will have to go away, and then the garden will be our own again.
My husband lies on the rubbish heap this morning, but before night the boy in the house will lie very still.
“He saved our lives and Teddy’s life,” she said to her husband.
Thomas Lynde--a meek little man whom Avonlea people called “Rachel Lynde’s husband”--was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn; and Matthew Cuthbert ought to have been sowing his on the big red brook field away over by Green Gables.
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