HUSBAND  丈夫夫

MALE ADULT MARRIED MATE.
SPOUSEPARTNERLIFE PARTNERMATECONSORTMANHELPMATEHELPMEETGROOMBRIDEGROOMINFORMAL HUBBYOLD MANONE'S BETTER HALFOTHER HALFSIGNIFICANT OTHER
Antonym
  • BACHELORMALE ADULT who is NOT MARRIED. 
    Hypernym
    • MATEADULT with whom one COPULATES.
      • ADULTHUMAN who is SUFFICIENTLY OLD to ESTABLISH his/her SEPARATE HOME.
        • HUMANANIMAL which HAS TWO LEGS AND LACKS FEATHERS.
          • ANIMALCREATURE ABLE to FEEL AND MOVE....
    See also
    • MARRYCAUSE someone to BECOME a HUSBAND OR a WIFE.
      • MARRYCAUSE someone to BECOME a HUSBAND OR a WIFE.
        • WIFEMARRIED FEMALE MATE.
          Hyponym
          • WIDOWER　HUSBAND BEREAVED of his WIFE OR OLD MAN LACKING a WIFE.
            • SON-IN-LAW　DAUGHTER'S HUSBAND.
              • STEPFATHER　MOTHER'S HUSBAND who is NOT one's SELF:own FATHER.
                • CUCKOLD　HUSBAND WHOSE WIFE HAS COMMITTED ADULTERY AND WHO IS LAUGHED-AT BECAUSE OF THIS.
                  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 ／

                  • 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

                  Attributions by syntactic funtion

                  • n : 30
                  • NP : 8
                  • NP[post-N] : 4
                  • n(post-N) : 3
                  • npost-N : 2
                  • vi : 1
                  • DELETE : 1
                  • NP(post-N) : 1

                  Attributions by text

                  • 春秋左傳 : 7
                  • 百喻經 : 6
                  • 孟子 : 6
                  • 韓非子 : 5
                  • 晏子春秋 : 3
                  • 戰國策 : 3
                  • 禮記 : 3
                  • 論衡 : 3
                  • 賢愚經 : 3
                  • 搜神記 : 2
                  • 說苑 : 1
                  • 墨子 : 1
                  • 荀子 : 1
                  • 淮南子 : 1
                  • 呂氏春秋 : 1
                  • 管子 : 1
                  • 莊子 : 1
                  • 春秋穀梁傳 : 1
                  • 古列女傳 : 1

                  Words

                  夫  fū OC: pa MC: pi̯o 32 AttributionsWD

                  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 AttributionsWD

                  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 AttributionsWD

                  Liáng rén 良人 is a familiar idiom for a husband.

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

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