wife Definition In English

  • 0 the woman that you are married to:

    • She's his third wife (= she is the third woman he has been married to).

    • I met Greg's wife for the first time.

  • 1 the woman to whom a man is married; a married woman

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  • Thus, the husband wrote letters to doctors on behalf of his wife, functioning, as it were, as her legal guardian.

  • The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent out for a nice long walk.

  • My wife should handle at her discretion the property and official appointments associated with the household headship.

  • His 47-year-old wife earned nine stuivers weekly.

  • The importance of railwaymen's economic contributions reinforced prevailing notions that men were considered household heads, even when wives earned income as well.

  • These data indicate that wives' private pensions in dual private pension households contribute marginally to greater equality in the wealth distribution.

  • The wife who cross-dresses to save her husband?

  • The father expressed feelings of pleasure in seeing his wife relax and his children enjoying participating in the music.

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