Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to husband
Participle: husbanded
Gerund: husbanding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | husband |
| you | husband |
| he;she;it | husbands |
| we | husband |
| you | husband |
| they | husband |
Perfect
| I | have husbanded |
| you | have husbanded |
| he;she;it | has husbanded |
| we | have husbanded |
| you | have husbanded |
| they | have husbanded |
Past
| I | husbanded |
| you | husbanded |
| he;she;it | husbanded |
| we | husbanded |
| you | husbanded |
| they | husbanded |
Pluperfect
| I | had husbanded |
| you | had husbanded |
| he;she;it | had husbanded |
| we | had husbanded |
| you | had husbanded |
| they | had husbanded |
Future
| I | will husband |
| you | will husband |
| he;she;it | will husband |
| we | will husband |
| you | will husband |
| they | will husband |
Future Perfect
| I | will have husbanded |
| you | will have husbanded |
| he;she;it | will have husbanded |
| we | will have husbanded |
| you | will have husbanded |
| they | will have husbanded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | husband |
| you | husband |
| he;she;it | husband |
| we | husband |
| you | husband |
| they | husband |
Perfect
| I | have husbanded |
| you | have husbanded |
| he;she;it | have husbanded |
| we | have husbanded |
| you | have husbanded |
| they | have husbanded |
Imperfect
| I | husbanded |
| you | husbanded |
| he;she;it | husbanded |
| we | husbanded |
| you | husbanded |
| they | husbanded |
Pluperfect
| I | had husbanded |
| you | had husbanded |
| he;she;it | had husbanded |
| we | had husbanded |
| you | had husbanded |
| they | had husbanded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would husband |
| you | would husband |
| he;she;it | would husband |
| we | would husband |
| you | would husband |
| they | would husband |
Perfect
| I | would have husbanded |
| you | would have husbanded |
| he;she;it | would have husbanded |
| we | would have husbanded |
| you | would have husbanded |
| they | would have husbanded |
Imperative
| you | husband |
| we | Let's husband |
| you | husband |
Verbs conjugated like 'husband'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'husband'
disband,
aband,
astand,
atstand,
band,
bestand,
desand,
disbend,
disbind,
dispand,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E. husbonda "male head of a household," probably from O.N. husbondi "master of the house," from hus "house" + bondi "householder, dweller, freeholder, peasant," from buandi, prp. of bua "to dwell" The sense of "peasant farmer" (c.1220) is preserved in husbandry (first attested c.1380 in this sense). Beginning c.1290, replaced O.E. wer as "married man," companion of wif, a sad loss for Eng. poetry. The verb "manage thriftily" is 1440, from the noun in the obsolete sense of "steward" (c.1450). Slang shortening hubby first attested 1688.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.?
4. Proto-Germanic *hūsą
5. Proto-West Germanic *hūs
6. Old English hūs
7. Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
8. Proto-Germanic *būaną
9. Old Norse búa
10. Proto-Indo-European *-onts
11. Proto-Germanic *-ndz
12. Old Norse -andi
13. Old Norse bóndibor.
14. Old English bonda
15. ▲
16. Old Norse húsbóndicalq.
17. Old English hūsbonda
18. Middle English husbonde
19. English husband
20. Inherited from Middle English husbonde, from Old English hūsbonda, from hūs + bonda. Calque of Old Norse húsbóndi. By surface analysis, house + bond.
Sample Sentences
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And for my meanes, I'll husband them so well,
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They shall go farre with little. [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:]
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1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
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...I found pens, ink, and paper, and I husbanded them to the utmost; and I shall show that while my ink lasted, I kept things very exact, but after that was gone I could not, for I could not make any ink by any means that I could devise.
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Land so trim and rarely husbanded. [1672 May 28 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 19 May 1672]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:]
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Thinke you, I am no ſtronger then my Sex
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Being ſo Father'd, and ſo Husbanded? [1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 116, column 2:]