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# husband

«husband» in Mova's school dictionary: **married to** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a husband, husbands); verb (husband — formal: to use carefully)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The man a person is married to. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/husband/#m1)

2) (formal, old verb) To use something carefully so as not to waste it (husband your energy). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/husband/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Family word in everyday life and stories; family trees in school. Phrases: «husband and wife», «her husband», «ex-husband».

### examples

- Mrs Patel's husband is a doctor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/husband/#x1)
- My aunt and her husband came for tea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/husband/#x2)
- They have been husband and wife for twenty years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/husband/#x3)
- Her husband cooked dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/husband/#x4)
- The queen's husband is called a prince consort. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/husband/#x5)
- (formal) The climbers husbanded their water on the long trek. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/husband/#x6)
- Her husband found these observations distasteful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/husband/#x7)

### note

Countable. Partner word: «wife» (plural wives); together «spouses» or «a married couple». In maths: a husband and wife = 2 people; «5 couples» = 10 people.

### In the corpora

- [Remarrying means marrying again after a divorce or after a husband or wife has died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/15/)
- [An older person who finds a new partner after losing a husband or wife has not forgotten the one who died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/18/)
- [A widow is a woman whose husband has died, and a widower is a man whose wife has died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/18/)
- ["Lost" in "she lost her husband" means her husband died; nothing was mislaid.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/17/)
- ["Companion" means a long-term partner who is not a husband or wife (old-fashioned).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «husband» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/husband/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.