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{
"term": "husband",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "the man that somebody is married to; a married man",
"labels": "(especially North American English)(informal)(informal)",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "This is my husband, Steve."
},
{
"text": "How did you **meet your husband**?"
},
{
"text": "She's finally decided to **leave her husband**."
},
{
"text": "She **lost her husband** *(= he died)* recently."
},
{
"text": "her **late husband**"
},
{
"text": "his husband of four years"
},
{
"text": "It had been a shock to find himself a **husband and father**."
},
{
"text": "She lost her husband to cancer a year ago."
},
{
"text": "She suddenly walked out on her husband, leaving him to bring up the children."
},
{
"text": "That was the day she met her future husband."
},
{
"text": "He is her second husband."
}
],
"topics": ["Family and relationships"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["future", "prospective", "suitable"],
"verb + husband": ["find", "meet", "marry"],
"phrases": ["husband and wife"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a man and woman who are married to each other",
"examples": [
{
"text": "They lived together as husband and wife *(= as if they were married)* for years."
},
{
"text": "a husband-and-wife team"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhʌzbənd/",
"audio": "hu/husband/husband__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhʌzbənd/",
"audio": "hu/husband/husband__us_4.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Old English in the senses ‘male head of a household’ and ‘manager, steward’, from Old Norse húsomebodyóndi ‘master of a house’, from hús ‘house’ + bóndi ‘occupier and tiller of the soil’. The original sense of the verb was ‘till, cultivate’."
}