Husband
Husband noun - The male partner in a marriage.
Usage example: she and her husband just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary
Man is a synonym for husband in person topic. In some cases you can use "Man" instead a noun "Husband", when it comes to topics like partner, spouse, title. popular alternative
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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A particularly egregious example of this was the case of a woman who was being accused by her husband of cheating with another man and the husband believed that the woman's child may belong to that man.
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In her own words, her husband is the kind of man her evil uncles would have dismissed as "weak", because he's the kind of man who makes society work instead of preying on it.
Source: Single Woman Seeks Good Man -
For example, a man tells a woman he no longer wants to be her boyfriend, leading to her death before he can clarify that he wants to be her husband.
Source: Bait-and-Switch Comment
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