husbandry

C2+ Topic:Animals

US /ˈhʌzbəndri/ UK /ˈhʌzbəndri/ See IPA manual

Minimal pairs

Sounds like husbandly /l/ vs /r/

Meanings

1

noun
the cultivation of crops and care of livestock; careful management of resources

Good animal husbandry kept the flock healthy through winter.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · the cultivation of crops... farming agriculture cultivation tillage management economystewardship

Opposites

waste extravagance

Word family

Related forms husband husbandman husbandly

Etymology

From Middle English husbondrie ('management of a household, farming'), from husband ('householder, farmer') + -ry. Ultimately from Old Norse husbondi ('master of a house').

husbondi Old Norse

View etymology graph ->

Topics

Animals Word Formation & Derivatives

External links

# husbandry

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈhʌzbəndri/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈhʌzbəndri/

## Meanings
1. the cultivation of crops and care of livestock; careful management of resources

## Examples
- Good animal husbandry kept the flock healthy through winter.

## Synonyms
- farming
- agriculture
- cultivation
- tillage
- management
- economy
- stewardship

## Antonyms
- waste
- extravagance

## Related Forms
- husband
- husbandman
- husbandly

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: husbondi

## Etymology
From Middle English husbondrie ('management of a household, farming'), from husband ('householder, farmer') + -ry. Ultimately from Old Norse husbondi ('master of a house').

## AI Etymology
husbandry comes from Middle English husbondrie ('management of a household, farming'), from husband ('householder, farmer') + -ry. Ultimately from Old Norse husbondi ('master of a house'). Morphologically, the ending is part of the etymology: the suffix is attached to the older base named in the history, producing a later English derivative. In present English, the noun sense is "the cultivation of crops and care of livestock; careful management of resources", so the historical development ends in a clearly identifiable modern dictionary use. The same base also appears in related forms such as husband, husbandman, and husbandly. Its semantic neighborhood includes farming, agriculture, cultivation, and tillage, which helps locate the modern sense without adding a separate etymological claim. The named historical forms include Old Norse husbondi.

## Topics
- Animals
- Word Formation & Derivatives

markdown