husband
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Is husband a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of husband?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (UK) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.UK
2. (archaic) A prudent or frugal manager.Examples: "God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant thereof."; "[S]o I went and fetch’d a good Dram of Rum, and gave him; for I had been ſo good a Husband of my Rum, that I had a great deal left: When he had drank it, I made him take the two Fowling-Pieces, which we always carry’d, and load them with large Swan-Shot, as big as ſmall Piſtol Bullets; then I took four Muſkets, and loaded them with two Slugs, and five ſmall Bullets each; and my two Piſtols I loaded with a Brace of Bullets each; I hung my great Sword as uſual, naked by my Side, and gave Friday his Hatchet."archaic
3. (somewhat dated) The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.dated
4. (UK dialectal) A polled tree; a pollard.UKdialectal
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.Examples: "And for my meanes, I'll husband them so well, They shall go farre with little."transitive
2. (transitive) To conserve.Examples: "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."transitive
3. (transitive, obsolete) To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.Examples: "Land so trim and rarely husbanded."obsoletetransitive
4. (transitive, archaic) To provide with a husband.Examples: "Thinke you, I am no ſtronger then my Sex Being ſo Father'd, and ſo Husbanded?"archaictransitive
5. (transitive) To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary