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1. (n.) wife
a woman joined in marriage to a man and considered as his spouse.
2. wife
a woman (archaic or dial., except in idioms):
old wives' tales.
3. wife
take to wife, to marry (a particular woman):
And he took to wife a woman of the next village.
Etymology: (bef. 900; ME, OE wīf woman, c. OFris, OS wīf, OHG wīp, ON vīf)
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| Definition of 'wife' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) wife, married woman
a married woman; a man's partner in marriage
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1. (noun) wife
the woman a man is married to
My wife and I will be there.
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| Definition of 'wife' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) wife
a woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like
2. (noun) wife
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
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The Roycroft Dictionary |
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wife
1. In good society, a publicity agent who advertises her husband's financial status through conspicuous waste and conspicuous leisure.
2. In the submerged tenth, a punching-bag and something handy for batting up flies.
3. A man's mental mate, and therefore his competitor in the race for power.
4. The other half of the sphere. (This view is usually regarded as a vagary, and any one holding it is apt to be pointed out as strange, peculiar, erratic and unsafe.)
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Sense: the woman to whom one is married
Come and meet my wife; He is looking for a wife.
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 Afrikaans: vrou |
 Arabic: زَوْجَه |
 Bulgarian: съпруга |
 Brazilian: esposa |
 Czech: manželka |
 German: die (Ehe-)Frau |
 Danish: kone |
 Greek: η σύζυγος |
 Spanish: esposa, mujer |
 Estonian: naine, abikaasa |
 Farsi: زن |
 Finnish: vaimo |
 French: femme |
 Hebrew: אִישָה |
 Hindi: पत्नी |
 Croatian: žena, supruga |
 Hungarian: feleség |
 Indonesian: istri |
 Icelandic: eiginkona |
 Italian: moglie |
 Japanese: 妻 |
 Korean: 아내 |
 Lithuanian: žmona |
 Latvian: sieva |
 Malay: isteri |
 Dutch: echtgenote |
 Norwegian: kone, hustru |
 Polish: żona |
 Persian: زن |
 Pashto: ماينه، ښځه، مېرمن |
 Portuguese: esposa |
 Romanian: soţie |
 Russian: жена |
 Slovak: manželka |
 Slovenian: žena |
 Serbian: supruga |
 Swedish: fru, hustru |
 Thai: ภรรยา |
 Turkish: eş, karı |
 Taiwanese: 妻子 |
 Ukrainian: дружина, жінка |
 Urdu: بیوی |
 Vietnamese: vợ |
 Chinese: 妻子 |
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