Husband
noun
- 1.
- (woman's partner in marriage, man who has a wife, a married man) ប្ដី, ស្វាមី
- 2.
- (រាជវង្ស) ព្រះស្វាមី, ព្រះភស្ដា
verb — past tense: husbanded ; past participle: husbanded ; present participle: husbanding ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (To manage with economy) គិតគូរសំចៃ, ថែរក្សា
Example: To husband one's supplies, Husband and wife.
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.
- 2.
- A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman.
- 3.
- One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist.
- 4.
- A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.
- 5.
- The male of a pair of animals.
verb — past tense: husbanded ; past participle: husbanded ; present participle: husbanding ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To cultivate, as land; to till.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) To furnish with a husband.