Definition of Husband

Husband

1. The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.
2. A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman.
3. One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist.
4. A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.
5. The male of a pair of animals.
6. To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.
7. To cultivate, as land; to till.
8. To furnish with a husband.