Husband vs Father - What's the difference?
husband | father |
(lb) The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
(lb) A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
*, IV.3:
*:a withered tree, through husbands toyle, / Is often seene full freshly to have florisht
*(rfdate) (George Hakewill) (1578-1649)
*:the painful husband , ploughing up his ground
*(rfdate) (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
*:He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestick and field accommodations.
(lb) A prudent or frugal manager.
*(rfdate) (Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
*:God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband , to improve the short remnant left me.
A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
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*(rfdate) (William Blackstone) (1723-1780)
*:The husband and wife are one person in law.
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*:A great bargain also had beenthe arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
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:(Dryden)
(lb) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
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A polled tree; a pollard.
To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
To conserve.
* 1719, (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
(obsolete) To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.
* (rfdate) (Evelyn)
To provide with a husband.
To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
A (generally human) male who begets a child.
* Bible, Proverbs x. 1
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A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
* Bible, 1 Kings ii. 10
* Bible, Rom. iv. 16
* Shakespeare
A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
* Bible, Job xxix. 16
* Bible, Genesis xiv. 8
The founder of a discipline or science.
A senator of Ancient Rome.
To be a father to; to sire.
* 1592 , v 4
(figuratively) To give rise to.
* 1610 — ii 2
To act as a father; to support and nurture.
* 1610 — iv 2
To provide with a father.
* Shakespeare
To adopt as one's own.
* Jonathan Swift
As nouns the difference between husband and father
is that husband is the master of a house; the head of a family; a householder while father is a (generally human) male who begets a child.As verbs the difference between husband and father
is that husband is to manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise while father is to be a father to; to sire.As a proper noun Father is
god, the father of Creation.husband
English
Noun
(en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* wifeHypernyms
* partner (may or may not be married ) * spouse (may also apply to wife )Derived terms
* ex-husband * house husband * hubby * husbandage * husbandly * husbandman * husbandry * husbandless * ship's husbandVerb
(en verb)- For my means, I'll husband them so well, / They shall go far. — Shakespeare.
- ...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.
- Land so trim and rarely husbanded .
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* husbandable * husbandryfather
English
Noun
(en noun)- A wise son maketh a glad father .
- David slept with his fathers .
- Abraham, who is the father of us all
- Bless you, good father friar!
- I was a father to the poor.
- He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house.
Synonyms
* (parent) See alsoAntonyms
* (with regards to gender) mother * (with regards to ancestry) son, daughter, childHypernyms
* (a male parent) parentDerived terms
* Father Christmas * Father of Lies * Father Time * Father's Day * fatherhood * father-in-law * fatherland * fatherless * fatherliness * fatherly * forefather * godfather * God the Father * grandfather * great-grandfather * Heavenly Father * how's your father * * stepfatherVerb
(en verb)- Well, go to; we'll have no bastards live; Especially since Charles must father it.
- Cowards father cowards and base things sire base.
- Ay, good youth! And rather father thee than master thee.
- Think you I am no stronger than my sex, / Being so fathered and so husbanded?
- Men of wit / Often fathered what he writ.