Synonyms of husbands

husbands 1 of 2

noun

plural of husband

as in spouses

a male partner in a marriage

she and her husband just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary

Synonyms & Similar Words

• spouses
• partners
• men
• hubbies
• misters
• grooms
• old men
• companions
• mates
• widowers
• consorts
• bridegrooms
• significant others
• soul mates
• Mr. Rights
• better halves
• househusbands
• benedicts

husbands

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of husband

as in conserves

to avoid the wasteful or destructive use of

husband our natural resources so that our children and grandchildren may benefit from them

Synonyms & Similar Words

• conserves
• protects
• preserves
• economizes
• hoards
• scrimps
• skimps
• saves
• lays up
• lays by

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• runs through
• throws away
• blows
• wastes
• squanders
• lavishes
• dissipates
• spends
• drains
• exhausts
• misspends
• consumes
• fritters (away)
• cleans (out)
• uses up
• impoverishes
• depletes
• expends

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of husbands

Noun

Barring husbands and children from having royal status is clearly an attempt to prevent maternal-line succession, said Hideya Kawanishi, a Nagoya University professor and expert on monarchy. — ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026

Those thick locks that inspired so many jealous jokes among your friends and their balding husbands. — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026

Brothers, husbands, mothers, children, grandparents—all were lost again and again in life, and then in death. — Daniel Barnum, Longreads, 15 Oct. 2026

But tensions brew in this village that could be out of a Grimms’ fairy tale, with local women (like Elizabeth Debicki) getting jealous and starting to wonder if their own husbands are lacking. — Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 14 Oct. 2026

People’s responses were also colored by everyone suddenly having lawyers and managers and agents, wives, husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends, friends. — Michael Schneider, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026

Of course its all about a murder she is accused of, one of her ex-husbands, and the timing couldn’t be worse for her beleaguered record company Megamax, now run by her first hubby and manager Barry Vogel (Alan Tudyk). — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2026

It was committed by husbands, fathers, friends, against women in particular (though research also raised awareness of male victims). — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026

Thousands of women, or their husbands, fathers, brothers write to me for clarification, for information. — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 2 Oct. 2026

Verb

Yet Kyiv’s stockpile has dried up as the United States husbands an arsenal that has been significantly depleted by the Iran war. — Eric Ciaramella, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2026