Wife
21wife */*/*/ — UK [waɪf] / US noun [countable] Word forms wife : singular wife plural wives UK [waɪvz] / US the woman that a man is married to I d better phone my wife and tell her I ll be late. wife of: a reception for the wives of the ambassadors …
22wife — [[t]wa͟ɪf[/t]] ♦ wives N COUNT: usu with poss A man s wife is the woman he is married to. → See also old wives tale He married his wife Jane 37 years ago... The woman was the wife of a film director …
23wife — wifedom, n. wifeless, adj. wifelessness, n. /wuyf/, n., pl. wives /wuyvz/, v., wifed, wifing. n. 1. a woman joined in marriage to a man; a woman considered in relation to her husband; spouse. 2. a woman (archaic or dial., except in idioms): old… …
24Wife — The ordinance of marriage was sanctioned in Paradise (Gen. 2:24; Matt. 19:4 6). Monogamy was the original law under which man lived, but polygamy early commenced (Gen. 4:19), and continued to prevail all down through Jewish history. The law of …
25wife — Synonyms and related words: better half, bride, common law wife, concubine, consort, dowager, feme, feme covert, goodwife, goody, helpmate, helpmeet, lady, married woman, mate, matron, old lady, old woman, other half, rib, spouse, squaw, wedded… …
26wife — [OE] Wife originally meant simply ‘woman’, but the semantic restriction to ‘married woman’ began in the Old English period and has become more and more firmly established as the centuries have passed. Of the word’s Germanic relatives, German weib …
27wife — /waɪf / (say wuyf) noun (plural wives /waɪvz / (say wuyvz)) 1. a woman joined in marriage to a man. 2. Archaic a woman: the wife of Bath. {Middle English; Old English wīf woman, wife} –wifedom, noun –wifeless, adjective –wifelessness …
28wife — n. a girlfriend. (Collegiate.) □ Me and my wife are going to Fred’s this Friday. □ Ask your wife if she wants to come along …
29wife — [OE] Wife originally meant simply ‘woman’, but the semantic restriction to ‘married woman’ began in the Old English period and has become more and more firmly established as the centuries have passed. Of the word’s Germanic relatives, German weib …
30wife — n. (pl. wives) 1 a married woman esp. in relation to her husband. 2 archaic a woman, esp. an old or uneducated one. 3 (in comb.) a woman engaged in a specified activity (fishwife; housewife; midwife). Phrases and idioms: have (or take) to wife… …
