husband
husband is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.
- noun. A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman.
- noun. One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist.
- noun. A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.
- noun. The male of a pair of animals.
- transitive verb. To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.
- transitive verb. To cultivate, as land; to till.
- transitive verb. To furnish with a husband.
- noun. a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
- verb. use cautiously and frugally
"I try to economize my spare time"
"conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit"
Synonyms
hubby, conserve, economise, economize
Common word forms
husbands, husbanded, husbander, husbandly, husbanding, husbandable, husbandless
Words from these letters
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