Definition of husband

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