How do you use the word "husband" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "husband": The man in the corner addressed himself to the husband. I have yet to find a perfect husband.

Husband Meaning

/ˈhʌzbənd/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.

nounA manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.

Sentence Examples

The man in the corner addressed himself to the husband.

I have yet to find a perfect husband.

Her husband works as a software engineer at a tech company.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

conserve economize economise

Antonyms:

wife waste

CEFR Practice Quiz

The woman introduced her ____, the man she married last year, to the group.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She introduces her ____ to her new colleagues at the annual company holiday party.

Word Origin & History

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.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The husband and wife are one person in law." — 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

"A great bargain also had been[…]the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair." — 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:

"But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion." — 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

"Smooth and slender and naked, Mary Rittersdorf faced her husband." — 1964, Philip K. Dick, “THIRTEEN”, in Clans of the Alphane Moon, United States: Ace Books, →OCLC; republished London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996, →ISBN, page 193:

"God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant thereof." — 1645, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times, Occasional Meditations: V:

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