husband
husband Lexical Profile
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• noun
A married man considered in relation to his spouse.
"She and her husband celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary in Paris."
• verb
To use or manage resources economically and prudently so as to conserve them.
"During the long drought, the farming community had to husband its remaining water supplies carefully."
To cultivate or till the soil, or to raise crops and livestock (archaic).
"For generations, the villagers husbanded the rocky hillside terraces to grow olives and grapes."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English 'husbonda', meaning 'master of a house', derived from Old Norse 'husbondi', a compound of 'hus' (house) and 'bondi' (householder, peasant, or freeholder). The original sense of managing a household or farm survives in the verb 'to husband' and the noun 'husbandry'.