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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Missis :: Missis (n.) A mistress; a wife; -- so used by the illiterate.
Feere :: Feere (n.) A consort, husband or wife; a companion; a fere..
Niobe :: Niobe (n.) The daughter of Tantalus, and wife of Amphion, king of Thebes. Her pride in her children provoked Apollo and Diana, who slew them all. Niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone..
Marry :: Marry (v. i.) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
Wedlock :: Wedlock (v. i.) A wife; a married woman.
Queen :: Queen (n.) The wife of a king.
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..
Peeress :: Peeress (n.) The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by right of marriage..
Czarevna :: Czarevna (n.) The title of the wife of the czarowitz.
Housewifely :: Housewifely (a.) Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent.
Husband :: Husband (n.) A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.
Wittol :: Wittol (n.) A man who knows his wife's infidelity and submits to it; a tame cuckold; -- so called because the cuckoo lays its eggs in the wittol's nest.
Saraswati :: Saraswati (n.) The sakti or wife of Brahma; the Hindoo goddess of learning, music, and poetry..
Millionairess :: Millionairess (n.) A woman who is a millionaire, or the wife of a millionaire..
Earl :: Earl (n.) A nobleman of England ranking below a marquis, and above a viscount. The rank of an earl corresponds to that of a count (comte) in France, and graf in Germany. Hence the wife of an earl is still called countess. See Count..
Helpmate :: Helpmate (n.) A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife..
Frigga :: Frigga (n.) The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya.
Adulterer :: Adulterer (n.) A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.
Condonation :: Condonation (n.) Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated..
Huswife :: Huswife (n.) A case for sewing materials. See Housewife.
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