What is the difference between partner and husband?

Husband is a hypernym of partner.

As nouns the difference between partner and husband

is that partner is someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest while husband is the master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.

As verbs the difference between partner and husband

is that partner is to make or be a partner while husband is to manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.

partner

English

Noun

(en noun)

Someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest.

# A member of a business or law partnership

#* 1668 July 3, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:

He Su?pends on the?e Rea?ons, that Thomas Rue'' had granted a general Di?charge to ''Adam Mu?het'', who was his Conjunct, and ''correus debendi'', after the alleadged Service, which Di?charged ''Mu?het'', and con?equently ''Houstoun his Partner .

# A spouse or domestic partner

# Someone with whom one dances in a two-person dance.

He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again her partner was haled off with a frightened look to the royal circle, […].

(nautical) One of the pieces of wood comprising the framework which strengthens the deck of a wooden ship around the holes through which the mast and other fittings pass.

(Jamaica) A group financial arrangement in which each member contributes a set amount of money over a set period.

Synonyms

* See also

Verb

(en verb)

to make or be a partner

to work or perform as a partner

Descendants

* French: partenaire (g) 1000 English basic words ----

husband

English

Noun

(en noun)

(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.

*(rfdate) (William Blackstone) (1723-1780)

*:The husband and wife are one person in law.

*: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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The male of a pair of animals.

:(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.

A polled tree; a pollard.

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* wife

Hypernyms

* 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 husband

Verb

(en verb)

To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.

For my means, I'll husband them so well, / They shall go far. — Shakespeare.

To conserve.

* 1719, (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)

...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.

(obsolete) To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.

* (rfdate) (Evelyn)

Land so trim and rarely husbanded .

To provide with a husband.

(Shakespeare)

To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.

Derived terms

* husbandable * husbandry

Statistics

* English refractory feminine rhymes 1000 English basic words ----