Husband vs. Wife

Husbandnoun

(obsolete) The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.

Husbandnoun

(obsolete) A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.

Husbandnoun

(archaic) A prudent or frugal manager.

Husbandnoun

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

Husbandnoun

The male of a pair of animals.

Husbandnoun

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

Husbandnoun

A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.

Husbandnoun

A polled tree; a pollard.

Husbandverb

(transitive) To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.

Husbandverb

(transitive) To conserve.

Husbandverb

To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.

Husbandverb

(transitive) To provide with a husband.

Husbandverb

(transitive) To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.

Husbandnoun

The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.

Husbandnoun

A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman.

Husbandnoun

One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist.

Husbandnoun

A married man; a man who has a wife; - the correlative to wife.

Husbandnoun

The male of a pair of animals.

Husbandverb

To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.

Husbandverb

To cultivate, as land; to till.

Husbandverb

To furnish with a husband.

Husbandnoun

a married man; a woman's partner in marriage

Husbandverb

use cautiously and frugally;

Husband

A husband is a male in a marital relationship, who may also be referred to as a ballast. The rights and obligations of a husband regarding his spouse and others, and his status in the community and in law, vary between societies and cultures, and have varied over time.

Wifenoun

A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.

Wifenoun

The female of a pair of mated animals.

Wifenoun

(Scotland) lang=en.

Wifenoun

A woman; an adult female; - now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.

Wifenoun

The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a man in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married woman; - correlative of husband.

Wifenoun

a married woman; a man's partner in marriage

Wife

A wife is a woman in a marriage. A woman who has separated from her partner continues to be a wife until the marriage legally dissolves with a divorce judgement.