From Middle English hus-bō̆ndrī, hus-bō̆ndrīe, husbanderi, husbonderie, housbondrye, housebondrie (“household management, housekeeping; household duties; economy, skilful management, thrift; farm management, agriculture, farming; cultivation; household articles; husbands collectively”)
AHP Notes
Etymology
From Middle English hus-bō̆ndrī, hus-bō̆ndrīe, husbanderi, husbonderie, housbondrye, housebondrie (“household management, housekeeping; household duties; economy, skilful management, thrift; farm management, agriculture, farming; cultivation; household articles; husbands collectively”),[1] from hǒus-bō̆nd, hǒus-bō̆nde (“male spouse, husband; master of a house; male head of a household; man having charge of something, household manager; (figuratively) host, inhabitant, resident; bondsman, villein; farmer, husbandman”) (see further at husband)[2] + -rīe (suffix forming nouns collectively denoting members or practitioners of a craft or profession).[3] The English word can be analysed as husband + -ry.[4]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhʌzb(ə)ndɹi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhʌzb(ə)ndɹi/, /ˈhəz-/
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Audio (General Australian): Duration: 2 seconds. - Hyphenation: hus‧band‧ry
Noun
husbandry (countable and uncountable, plural husbandries)
- The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock; agriculture.
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- Synonym: agronomy
- The prudent management or conservation of resources.
- (now chiefly nautical) Administration or management of day-to-day matters.
- (obsolete) Agricultural or cultivated land.
- Techniques of animal care.
Related terms
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References
- ^ “hus-bō̆ndrī(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ “hǒus-bō̆nd(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ “-e)rīe, suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ “husbandry, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2016; “husbandry”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
agriculture on Wikipedia.- animal husbandry on Wikipedia.