wife
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wife/wʌɪf/
▶noun (pl. wives) a married woman considered in relation to her husband.
■ archaic or dialect a woman, especially an old or uneducated one.
– derivatives
wifehood noun,
wifeless adjective,
wifeliness noun,
wifely adjective.
wifehood noun,
wifeless adjective,
wifeliness noun,
wifely adjective.
– origin OE wīf ‘woman’, of Gmc origin.
'wife' also found in these Oxford entries:
adultery
- archduchess
- aunt
- baroness
- beater
- better
- bibi
- brother-in-law
- Caesar
- concubine
- conjugal
- consort
- countess
- Crown princess
- curtain lecture
- daughter-in-law
- duchess
- dutch
- electress
- empress
- estrange
- ex
- father-in-law
- first lady
- future
- gamete
- gin
- grand duchess
- hausfrau
- helpmate
- her
- husband
- Jezebel
- jointure
- Judy
- Junoesque
- lady
- Lady Mayoress
- legal separation
- maharani
- maintenance
- majesty
- man
- marchioness
- margravine
- marital
- marquise
- marriage
- marry
- matrilocal
