Husband
A husband is a male lifetime partner in a marital relationship. The rights and obligations of the husband regarding his spouse and others, and his status in the community and in law, vary between cultures and has varied over time. In a heterosexual relationship, a man's spouse would be his wife.
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Famous quotes containing the word husband:
“For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.”
—Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 7:4.
“My husband and I ...”
—Elizabeth II (b. 1926)
“I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.”
—Vera Brittain (1893–1970)