husband

1. 1.

   use cautiously and frugally

   “I try to economize my spare time”

   “conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit”

   Synonymsconserveeconomizeeconomise

   Broadersave

   Narrowerretrench

Other forms of husband

plural

husbands·

past tense

husbanded·

present participle

husbanding·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about husband

What does husband mean?

husband means "a married man; a woman's partner in marriage". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in husband?

husband has 2 syllables: hus-band. The stress falls on "hus". In IPA it is /ˈhʌzbənd/.

What is another word for husband?

Close synonyms include hubby, married man, conserve, economize, economise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of husband?

The recorded antonyms are wife.

Is husband a common word?

husband is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with husband?

1 word rhymes with husband. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.