The meaning of wife is woman. How to use wife in a sentence. What exactly does a good wife mean these days?
He is talking about a story claiming he ditched his wife for another woman. Take to wife, to marry (a particular woman): We met him and his wife.
They were husband and wife [=a married couple] for almost 60 years. There are 15 meanings listed in oed's entry for the noun wife, one of which is labelled obsolete. A combining form of wife, now unproductive, occurring in compound words that in general designate traditional roles or occupations of women:
A woman who has separated from her partner continues to be a wife until the marriage is legally dissolved with a divorce judgement.
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