About The Word Wife
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Wife Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Wife?
[n] a married woman; a man's partner in marriage
Synonyms | Synonyms for Wife: married woman Related Terms | Find terms related to Wife: See Also | adult female | Anne Hathaway | battle-ax | battle-axe | better half | Catherine | Catherine of Aragon | crown princess | first lady | Frau | golf widow | Hathaway | homemaker | honest woman | housewife | lady of the house | marchioness | married person | mate | matron | mayoress | missis | missus | Mrs | old lady | partner | Rachel | Rebecca | Rebekah | Ruth | Sarah | Senora | sheika | sheikha | signora | spouse | ux | uxor | vicereine | viscountess | woman | woman of the house Wife In Webster's Dictionary \Wife\, n.; pl. {Wives}. [OE. wif, AS. wif; akin to OFries.
& OS. wif, D. wijf, G. weib, OHG. w[=i]b, Icel. v[=i]f, Dan.
viv; and perhaps to Skr. vip excited, agitated, inspired, vip
to tremble, L. vibrare to vibrate, E. vibrate. Cf. Tacitus,
[`` Germania'' 8]: Inesse quin etiam sanctum aliquid et
providum putant, nec aut consilia earum aspernantur aut
responsa neglegunt. Cf. {Hussy} a jade, {Woman}.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
{To give to wife}, {To take to wife}, to give or take (a
woman) in marriage.
{Wife's equity} (Law), the equitable right or claim of a
married woman to a reasonable and adequate provision, by
way of settlement or otherwise, out of her choses in
action, or out of any property of hers which is under the
jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, for the support of
herself and her children. --Burrill.
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