| Husband 1. (n.) The male spouse or (v. t.) To direct and manage with frugality. 2. (n.) A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman. 3. (n.) One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist. 4. (n.) A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife. 5. (n.) The male of a pair of animals. 6. (v. t.) To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy. 7. (v. t.) To cultivate, as land; to till. 8. (v. t.) To furnish with a husband. Thesaurus Entries benedict, boss, bridegroom, budget, bwana, chef, chief, church dignitary, conserve, consort, ecclesiarch, economize, elder, employer, enforce economies, goodman, groom, guru, helpmate, helpmeet, hoard, hold back, hubby, keep, keep back, keep by one, keep in reserve, keep in store, keep on hand, keep within compass, lay by, liege, liege lord, lord, lord paramount, make ends meet, man, manage, married man, master, mate, mister, old man, other half, overlord, padrone, paramount, partner, paterfamilias, patriarch, patron, preserve, put apart, put aside, put by, put something aside, rabbi, reserve, retain, sahib, save, save up, scrape, scrape and save, scrimp, seigneur, seignior, set apart, set aside, set by, skimp, spouse, starets, store, teacher, withhold |