husband vs mate
mate vs husbandhusband and mate both are nouns.
husband and mate both are verbs.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| husband | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| mate | Yes | No | Yes | No |
As nouns,
mate is a hypernym of
husband; that is, mate is a
word with a broader meaning than husband:
- husband: a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
- mate: a person's partner in marriage
| husband (noun) | mate (noun) |
|---|---|
| a married man; a woman's partner in marriage | a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king |
| an exact duplicate | |
| South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate | |
| a person's partner in marriage | |
| the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner) | |
| the officer below the master on a commercial ship | |
| informal term for a friend of the same sex | |
| a fellow member of a team | |
| South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea | |
| one of a pair |
| husband (verb) | mate (verb) |
|---|---|
| use cautiously and frugally | place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game |
| engage in sexual intercourse | |
| bring two objects, ideas, or people together |
Words related to "husband"
Words related to "mate"
- Australia
- Britain
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Great Britain
- Ilex paraguariensis
- Paraguay tea
- U.K.
- UK
- United Kingdom
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- animal
- animate being
- associate
- bang
- be intimate
- beast
- beat
- beat out
- bed
- better half
- beverage
- bigamist
- bonk
- brace
- breed
- brute
- bugger
- checkmate
- chess
- chess game
- chess move
- conceive
- conjoin
- consort
- copulate
- couple
- couplet
- cover
- creature
- crush
- deflower
- distich
- do it
- domestic partner
- drink
- drinkable
- duad
- duet
- duo
- duplicate
- duplication
- dyad
- eff
- fauna
- fellow
- first mate
- friend
- fuck
- get it on
- get laid
- have a go at it
- have intercourse
- have it away
- have it off
- have sex
- helpmate
- helpmeet
- holly
- honeymooner
- hubby
- hump
- husband
- jazz
- join
- know
- lie with
- love
- make love
- make out
- man and wife
- marriage
- married couple
- married man
- married person
- married woman
- match
- matey
- mating
- mismatch
- mismate
- monogamist
- monogynist
- mount
- newlywed
- nick
- officer
- pair
- partner
- polygamist
- potable
- relation
- relative
- ride
- roll in the hay
- ruin
- screw
- serve
- service
- shell
- ship's officer
- significant other
- singleton
- sleep together
- sleep with
- sodomise
- sodomize
- span
- spousal equivalent
- spouse
- spouse equivalent
- teammate
- tread
- trounce
- twain
- twin
- twosome
- vanquish
- wife
- yoke
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