wife Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun a married woman; a man's partner in marriage
married woman.
WordNet
Wife noun
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Definitions
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A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like. " Both men and wives." Piers Plowman.On the green he saw sitting a wife. Chaucer.
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The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a man in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married woman; -- correlative of husband. " The husband of one wife." 1 Tin. iii. 2.Let every one you . . . so love his wife even as himself, and the wife see that she reverence her husband. Eph. v. 33.