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How to spell ex-husband

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What it means: A man who is divorced from his former spouse.

In a sentence: My friend's ex-husband is visiting to help with a project.

Same family: ex-wife, husband, ex-partner, ex-spouse, divorce. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Ex-husband combines the Latin-origin prefix "ex-", meaning "former" or "out of", with the Old Norse–derived word "husband," which originally meant "master of a house" or "householder." The "ex-" prefix became common in English for former roles or relationships in the 19th and 20th centuries, giving us words like ex-husband, ex-wife, and ex-president.

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