husband

«husband» in Mova's school dictionary: married to — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a husband, husbands); verb (husband — formal: to use carefully)

meaning for a pupil

1) The man a person is married to. tree →

2) (formal, old verb) To use something carefully so as not to waste it (husband your energy). tree →

sense in the lessons

Family word in everyday life and stories; family trees in school. Phrases: «husband and wife», «her husband», «ex-husband».

examples

• Mrs Patel's husband is a doctor. tree →
• My aunt and her husband came for tea. tree →
• They have been husband and wife for twenty years. tree →
• Her husband cooked dinner. tree →
• The queen's husband is called a prince consort. tree →
• (formal) The climbers husbanded their water on the long trek. tree →
• Her husband found these observations distasteful. tree →

note

Countable. Partner word: «wife» (plural wives); together «spouses» or «a married couple». In maths: a husband and wife = 2 people; «5 couples» = 10 people.

In the corpora

• Remarrying means marrying again after a divorce or after a husband or wife has died.
• An older person who finds a new partner after losing a husband or wife has not forgotten the one who died.
• A widow is a woman whose husband has died, and a widower is a man whose wife has died.
• "Lost" in "she lost her husband" means her husband died; nothing was mislaid.
• "Companion" means a long-term partner who is not a husband or wife (old-fashioned).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «husband» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.