Definition of wife

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Wife (n.) A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like..

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Stepfather :: Stepdaughter (n.) A daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
Matron :: Matron (n.) A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners..
Cassiopeia :: Cassiopeia (n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere, situated between Cepheus and Perseus; -- so called in honor of the wife of Cepheus, a fabulous king of Ethiopia..
Fere :: Fere (n.) A mate or companion; -- often used of a wife.
Spot :: Spot (n.) A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife..
Faithless :: Faithless (a.) Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife..
Blueback :: Blueback (n.) An American river herring (Clupea aestivalis), closely allied to the alewife..
Midwifery :: Midwifery (n.) Assistance at childbirth; help or cooperation in production.
Abandonment :: Abandonment (n.) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion..
Stepstone :: Stepson (n.) A son of one's husband or wife by a former marriage.
Husband :: Husband (n.) A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.
Housewife :: Housewife (v. t.) Alt. of Housewiv.
Disloyal :: Disloyal (a.) Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife..
Endogamy :: Endogamy (n.) Marriage only within the tribe; a custom restricting a man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed to exogamy.
Marry :: Marry (v. t.) To take for husband or wife. See the Note below.
Huswifely :: Huswifely (a.) Like a huswife; capable; economical; prudent.
Aunt :: Aunt (n.) The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
Wedlock :: Wedlock (v. i.) A wife; a married woman.
Seal :: Seal (v. t.) Among the Mormons, to confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife..
Family :: Family (v. t.) The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society..
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