Man vs. Husband — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Man and Husband
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Man
A man is an adult male human. Prior to adulthood, a male human is referred to as a boy (a male child or adolescent).
Husband
A husband is a male in a marital relationship, who may also be referred to as a ballast. The rights and obligations of a husband regarding his spouse and others, and his status in the community and in law, vary between societies and cultures, and have varied over time.
Man
An adult male human.
Husband
A man joined to another person in marriage; a male spouse.
Man
A human regardless of sex or age; a person.
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Husband
Chiefly British A manager or steward, as of a household.
Man
A human or an adult male human belonging to a specific occupation, group, nationality, or other category. Often used in combination
A milkman.
A congressman.
A freeman.
Husband
(Archaic) A prudent, thrifty manager.
Man
The human race; mankind
Man's quest for peace.
Husband
To use sparingly or economically; conserve
Husband one's energy.
Man
A male human endowed with qualities, such as strength, considered characteristic of manhood.
Husband
(Archaic) To become a husband to.
Man
A husband.
Husband
The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
Man
A male lover or sweetheart.
Husband
A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
Man
Workers.
Husband
A prudent or frugal manager.
Man
Enlisted personnel of the armed forces
Officers and men.
Husband
A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
You should start dating so you can find a suitable husband.
Man
A male representative, as of a country or company
Our man in Tokyo.
Husband
The male of a pair of animals.
Man
A male servant or subordinate.
Husband
(UK) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
Man
(Informal) Used as a familiar form of address for a man
See here, my good man!.
Husband
A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
While reading her book, Sally leaned back against her husband, wishing it were the human kind.
Man
One who swore allegiance to a lord in the Middle Ages; a vassal.
Husband
A polled tree; a pollard.
Man
(Games) Any of the pieces used in a board game, such as chess or checkers.
Husband
(transitive) To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
Man
(Nautical) A ship. Often used in combination
A merchantman.
A man-of-war.
Husband
(transitive) To conserve.
Man
Often Man(Slang) A person or group felt to be in a position of power or authority. Used with the
"Their writing mainly concerns the street life—the pimp, the junky, the forces of drug addiction, exploitation at the hands of 'the man'" (Black World).
Husband
To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.
Man
To supply with men, as for defense or service
Man a ship.
Husband
(transitive) To provide with a husband.
Man
To take stations at, as to defend or operate
Manned the guns.
Husband
(transitive) To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
Man
To fortify or brace
Manned himself for the battle ahead.
Husband
The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.
Man
Used as an expletive to indicate intense feeling
Man! That was close.
Husband
A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman.
The painful husband, plowing up his ground.
He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestic and field accommodations.
Man
An adult male human.
The show is especially popular with middle-aged men.
Husband
One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist.
God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant left me.
Man
(collective) All human males collectively: mankind.
Husband
A married man; a man who has a wife; - the correlative to wife.
The husband and wife are one person in law.
Man
A human, a person regardless of gender, usually an adult. See usage notes.
Every man for himself
Husband
The male of a pair of animals.
Man
(collective) All humans collectively: mankind, humankind, humanity. Sometimes capitalized as Man.
Husband
To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.
For my means, I'll husband them so well,They shall go far.
Man
A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
Husband
To cultivate, as land; to till.
Land so trim and rarely husbanded.
Man
A male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
Husband
To furnish with a husband.
Man
An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch.
Husband
A married man; a woman's partner in marriage
Man
Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.
Husband
Use cautiously and frugally;
I try to economize my spare time
Conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit
Man
A husband.
Man
A male lover; a boyfriend.
Man
A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing. Used as the last element of a compound.
Some people prefer apple pie, but me, I’m a cherry pie man.
Man
A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing. Used as the last element of a compound.
I wanted to be a guitar man on a road tour, but instead I’m a flag man on a road crew.
Man
A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
Man
A male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc.
Man
An adult male servant.
Man
(historical) A vassal; a subject.
All the king's men
Man
A piece or token used in board games such as chess.
Man
(sports) A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.
Man
: I, we; construed in the third person.
Man
Any person, one
Man
(transitive) To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).
The ship was manned with a small crew.
Man
(transitive) To take up position in order to operate (something).
Man the machine guns!
Man
To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. Compare man up.
Man
To wait on, attend to or escort.
Man
To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.
Man
A human being; - opposed to beast.
These men went about wide, and man found they none,But fair country, and wild beast many [a] one.
The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me.
'Tain't a fit night out for man nor beast!
Man
An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.
When I became a man, I put away childish things.
Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man.
Man
The human race; mankind.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion.
The proper study of mankind is man.
Man
The male portion of the human race.
Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than man to the discharge of parental duties.
Man
One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the elementsSo mixed in him that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world "This was a man!"
Man
An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
Like master, like man.
The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor.
Man
A term of familiar address at one time implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose! In the latter half of the 20th century it became used in a broader sense as simply a familiar and informal form of address, but is not used in business or formal situations; as, hey, man! You want to go to a movie tonight?.
Man
A married man; a husband; - correlative to wife.
I pronounce that they are man and wife.
Every wife ought to answer for her man.
Man
One, or any one, indefinitely; - a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
A man can not make him laugh.
A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum of a Roman ship.
Man
One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.
Man
To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort.
See how the surly Warwick mans the wall !
They man their boats, and all their young men arm.
Man
To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.
Man
To tame, as a hawk.
Man
To furnish with a servant or servants.
Man
To wait on as a manservant.
Man
An adult male person (as opposed to a woman);
There were two women and six men on the bus
Man
Someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force;
Two men stood sentry duty
Man
The generic use of the word to refer to any human being;
It was every man for himself
Man
All of the inhabitants of the earth;
All the world loves a lover
She always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women
Man
Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae
Man
A male subordinate;
The chief stationed two men outside the building
He awaited word from his man in Havana
Man
An adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent);
The army will make a man of you
Man
A male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman;
She takes good care of her man
Man
A manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer;
Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man
Man
One of the British Isles in the Irish Sea
Man
Game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games;
He taught me to set up the men on the chess board
He sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage
Man
Take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place;
Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning
Man
Provide with men;
We cannot man all the desks
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