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Husband

Kinship
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A married man in relation to his spouse. The term can denote a role shaped by love, law, and domestic life.

Detailed Definition
A husband is a married man in relation to his spouse. Poets use the term in celebrations of devotion as well as in examinations of power, partnership, duty, disappointment, and grief. Because it carries both intimate and social meanings, husband can place a poem within the daily texture of marriage: shared beds, work, arguments, illness, parenthood, promises, and the changing forms of desire across years of living together.
Example
Example in poetry:
“My husband carries sawdust home in the cuffs of evening” characterizes him through work and sensory detail; Anne Bradstreet’s poems to her husband make marital love a fitting subject for lyric devotion; “Husband, your silence is the chair across from mine” uses an ordinary object to suggest distance; A poem may contrast “my husband before the war” with “my husband after” to show change through a close relationship
Additional Notes
Husband names a married man in relation to his spouse. Poets may use it for domestic roles, devotion, conflict, or social expectations; spouse is a more gender-neutral alternative.
Also Known As
Spouse Hubby goodman gudeman
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