{
    "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’."
}