HUSBAND    丈夫夫

MALE ADULT MARRIED MATE.
SPOUSEPARTNERLIFE PARTNERMATECONSORTMANHELPMATEHELPMEETGROOMBRIDEGROOMINFORMAL HUBBYOLD MANONE'S BETTER HALFOTHER HALFSIGNIFICANT OTHER
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The general current word for a husband is fū 夫. 2. Liáng rén 良人 is a familiar idiom for a husband. 3. Zhàng fū 丈夫 is an informal colloquial word for a husband, one suspects, but it is hard to see how one may prove this point.
黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006 HUMAN AFFAIRS 9. 丈夫。 夫，通稱。 良人，用於妻妾稱夫。 家，敘稱；後轉移指妻。
Modern Chinese Criteria
夫 丈夫 愛人 男人 男的 先生 女婿 老公 漢子 所天 外子 當家的 孩子爸 孩子他爸 孩子爹 孩子他爹 家主公 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • WIDOWER　HUSBAND BEREAVED of his WIFE OR OLD MAN LACKING a WIFE. (anc: 10/0, child: 0)
  • SON-IN-LAW　DAUGHTER'S HUSBAND. (anc: 10/0, child: 0)
  • STEPFATHER　MOTHER'S HUSBAND who is NOT one's SELF:own FATHER. (anc: 10/0, child: 0)
  • CUCKOLD　HUSBAND WHOSE WIFE HAS COMMITTED ADULTERY AND WHO IS LAUGHED-AT BECAUSE OF THIS. (anc: 10/0, child: 0)
Antonym
  • BACHELORMALE ADULT who is NOT MARRIED. 
See also
  • MARRYCAUSE someone to BECOME a HUSBAND OR a WIFE.
  • MARRYCAUSE someone to BECOME a HUSBAND OR a WIFE.
  • WIFEMARRIED FEMALE MATE.
Hypernym
  • MATE　ADULT with whom one COPULATES. (anc: 8/0, child: 4)
  • ADULT　HUMAN who is SUFFICIENTLY OLD to ESTABLISH his/her SEPARATE HOME. (anc: 7/0, child: 20)
  • HUMAN　ANIMAL which HAS TWO LEGS AND LACKS FEATHERS. (anc: 6/0, child: 31)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 2.31

  • 中國文化背景八千詞 Zhongguo wenhua beijing ba qian ci ( WU SANXING 2008) p. 154ff

  • Using Chinese Synonyms ( GRACE ZHANG 2010) p. 351

  • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no.72

    • Words (10 items)

    夫  fū OC: pa MC: pi̯o 33 Attributions

    The general current word for a husband is fū 夫.

      Word relations
    • Conv: 婦/WIFE The most general term for a female mate is fù 婦 (ant. fū 夫 "husband").
    • Oppos: 婦/WIFE The most general term for a female mate is fù 婦 (ant. fū 夫 "husband").

      Syntactic words
    • DELETEthe contextually determinate N's wifeCH
    • nego's husband; [occasionally understood as "potential husbands"]
    • n(post-N)the husband of the contextually determinate NCH
    • n[post-N]a husband of someone, deserving of the name
    • nabconcepthusbandhood, role of a husband
    • nnonreferentiala husband in general;
    • npost-NN's husbandDS
    • viactbehave as a husband should
    丈夫  zhàng fū OC: daŋʔ pa MC: ɖi̯ɐŋ pi̯o 6 Attributions

    Zhàng fū 丈夫 is an informal colloquial word for a husband, one suspects, but it is hard to see how one may prove this point.

      Word relations
    • Conv: 婦人/WIFE fù rén 婦人 is said to refer to the wife of a gentleman rather than a mere commoner. (LIJI 2.2.16)

      Syntactic words
    • NPhusband
    • NPnonreferentialhusbands; a married man
    良人  liáng rén OC: ɡ-raŋ njin MC: li̯ɐŋ ȵin 4 Attributions

    Liáng rén 良人 is a familiar idiom for a husband.

      Syntactic words
    • NP[post-N]husband
    夫主  fū zhǔ OC: pa tjoʔ MC: pi̯o tɕi̯o 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPhusband and lord > lord of the household
    婿  xù OC: sqees MC: sei 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nhusband
    家  jiā OC: kraa MC: kɣɛ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nHOME> husband to get married to; husband
    君公  jūn gōng MC: kjun kuwng OC: klun klooŋ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NP(post-N)the husband of the contextually determinate NCH
    君  jūn OC: klun MC: ki̯un 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nmaster and husband
    愛人  ài rén MC: 'ojH nyin OC: qɯɯds njin 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NP[post-N]singularone's husbandCH
    夫婿  fū xù OC: pa sqees MC: pi̯o sei 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NP(post-N)her husband