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wife

[wahyf]

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noun

a woman joined in marriage to a man; a woman considered in relation to her husband; spouse.

a woman (archaic or dial., except in idioms): old wives' tale.

verb (used without object), verb (used with object)

Rare. wive.

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Wife is one of our favorite verbs.

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to flee; abscond:

to bark; yelp.

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Idiom

take to wife, to marry (a particular woman): He took an heiress to wife.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English, Old English wīf woman; cognate with Dutch wijf, German Weib, Old Norse vīf

Related forms

wife·dom, noun

wife·less, adjective

wife·less·ness, noun

Example Sentences

The role of a presidential wife is not a taboo subject.

One wife asked a court to declare him incompetent to handle money.

Perhaps not surprisingly his wife later chose to be buried elsewhere.

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The role of a presidential wife is not a taboo subject.

One wife asked a court to declare him incompetent to handle money.

Perhaps not surprisingly his wife later chose to be buried elsewhere.

The wife has no longer full rights over her own person, but shares them with her husband.

I've wanted chickens for a year, but my wife aays no.

Flinging your wife over your shoulder, you sprint across a course of hurtles, pits and water courses.

Right now the husband has a tenure-track job at the college, and the wife has a temporary appointment.

There is no glamour in knowing that a writer mows the lawn, loves his wife and walks the dog.

Hi,sometimes when you are a pastor's wife people expect you to be perfect.

It was awful and my wife would say that a different person had walked back into the room.

Then my wife decided to try a recipe where they are diced, sautéed in butter and are finished with sea salt.

Noah told me he and his wife were having such a great time on vacation that he was thinking of staying an extra few days.

If a husband can stay at home and run a successful online business while his wife practices medicine, great.

His house was destroyed, his wife and son saved for no reason he could see.

When men cheat on a girl friend or wife it's another women and the same for women, it's over another man.

Smith's estranged wife turned him in to the police after discovering the suitcase.

Husband and wife are reunited in heaven, along with their extended family.

Let your wife too think positive and don't ever feed this sort of research to her.

They thought that in getting to my wife they could get to me.

For instance, you may be dreaming about your boyfriend, and he suddenly morphs into your uncle who recently left his wife.

Only a small minority of men have more than one wife.

It's more likely that the mother was a collateral wife.

My wife earned my respect by showing that she is my mental equal.

Y, poisoned himself and his wife at the residence of his father-inlaw here, where they had been guests.

Marriages in which the wife is better educated or older than her.

Jailed for years, he now sulks in his study while his aggrieved wife prowls around downstairs.

As his wife tells us about his recent stroke, he pulls.

When he considered a comeback the following season-his injuries had healed-his wife advised him against making a fool of himself.

My wife showed me a picture of a storage unit and asked me to.

No one told us of the need for hospice care when my wife drew into the final phases of her doctoral program.

There was once a man who had seven sons, and still he had no daughter, however much he and his wife wished for one.

Mike's blonde, ponytailed wife hangs over the bow, arms buried in goo.

The next morning his wife joined the gang, but when only four exited the barn the crows knew that not everybody had left.

As a fairly geeky person herself, my wife is often saddled with.

The night before, he shot and killed his mother and his wife.

Two years later he signed over his fortune to the foundation, except for sums set aside for his wife and children.

It turned out to be the urn of his wife who died decades earlier.

The man's wife had moved to town and was hired as a cleaner in the new hospital.

My wife is also looking for a job, she has a few interview scheduled in the same area.

Another is a form of divorce known as talaq in which a man simply renounces his wife.

His wife died of tuberculosis, and his children disappeared.

My other son takes out a couple of goblins while my wife provides cover from above.

The former principal's situation quoted above demonstrates one fairly common model: husband and wife alternate.

Before the news became public the broker sold the stock for his wife and clients.

Tut's throne shows a rare intimate scene: his wife rubbing him with perfumed oil.

My wife thought the two people she worked with were helpful and pleasant.

If your wife catches you looking at an attractive woman, you might get knocked upside the head with a sturdy purse.

Children crack up at the silliest things, as my wife.

But there's a reason he and his wife has been fighting extradition for so long.

Perhaps oddy doesn't have a wife or dog to kick when he gets home.

My other son takes out a couple of goblins while my wife provides cover from above with her.

My wife went to the fabric store and found different ugly looking fabrics.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

a combining form of wife, now unproductive, occurring in compound words that in general designate traditional roles or occupations of women: fishwife; goodwife; housewife; midwife.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

wife (waɪf)

—n , pl wives
1.	a man's partner in marriage; a married womanRelated: uxorial
2.	an archaic or dialect word for woman
3.	take to wife to marry (a woman)

Related: uxorial

[Old English wīf; related to Old Norse vīf (perhaps from vīfathr veiled), Old High German wīb (German Weib)]

'wifehood

—n

'wifeless

—*adj*

'wifelike

—*adj*

'wifeliness

—n

'wifely

—*adj*

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

wife

O.E. wif "woman," from P.Gmc. *wiban (cf. O.S., O.Fris. wif, O.N. vif, Dan., Swed. viv, M.Du., Du. wijf, O.H.G. wib, Ger. Weib), of uncertain origin. Some proposed PIE roots include *weip- "to twist, turn, wrap," perhaps with sense of "veiled person" (see vibrate); or *ghwibh-,

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a proposed root meaning "shame," also "pudenda," but the only examples of it are wife and Tocharian (a lost IE language of central Asia) kwipe, kip "female pudenda." The modern sense of "female spouse" began as a specialized sense in O.E.; the general sense of "woman" is preserved in midwife, old wives' tale, etc. M.E. sense of "mistress of a household" survives in housewife; and later restricted sense of "tradeswoman of humble rank" in fishwife. Du. wijf now means, in slang, "girl, babe," having softened somewhat from earlier sense of "bitch." Wife-swapping is attested from 1959.

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Slang Dictionary

wife definition

n.
a girlfriend. (Collegiate.) : Me and my wife are going to Fred's this Friday.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Easton

Bible Dictionary

Wife definition

The ordinance of marriage was sanctioned in Paradise (Gen. 2:24; Matt. 19:4-6). Monogamy was the original law under which man lived, but polygamy early commenced (Gen. 4:19), and continued to prevail all down through Jewish history. The law of Moses regulated but did not prohibit polygamy. A man might have a plurality of wives, but a wife could have only one husband. A wife's legal rights (Ex. 21:10) and her duties (Prov. 31:10-31; 1 Tim. 5:14) are specified. She could be divorced in special cases (Deut. 22:13-21), but could not divorce her husband. Divorce was restricted by our Lord to the single case of adultery (Matt. 19:3-9). The duties of husbands and wives in their relations to each other are distinctly set forth in the New Testament (1 Cor. 7:2-5; Eph. 5:22-33; Col. 3:18, 19; 1 Pet. 3:1-7).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

wife

see under wives.

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