Dictionary Entry
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.
7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.
- 2noun
A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman.
- 3noun
One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist.
- 4noun
A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.
- 5noun
The male of a pair of animals.
- 6transitive 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.
- 7transitive verb
To cultivate, as land; to till.
- 8transitive verb
To furnish with a husband.
- 9noun
a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
Synonyms
- 10verb
use cautiously and frugally
"I try to economize my spare time"
"conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit"
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