noun
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A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
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The female of a pair of mated animals.
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A new wife for the gander is introduced into the pen.
verb
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(said of men) to marry
noun
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An adult female human.
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(collective) All females collectively; womankind.
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A female person, usually an adult; a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
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A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend).
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A female who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)
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A female attendant or servant.
Examples of wife in a Sentence
My wife looked up from her lap top.
His mother and his wife are still there.
Carmen is a good wife.
The charcoal man and his wife listened to this little dispute, and said nothing.
It would be different with his wife.
No wonder he wasn't interested in a wife.
Quinn, sensing his wife's discomfort, changed the subject back to the game.
My wife was biting her lip and tears began seeping down her cheeks.
However, my wife was far and away the most intelligent of the five of us and understood our success depended on strong leadership.
But the wife claims he wasn't much of a drinker.
If it was someone he knew, then that opens up another list—his wife, a business enemy, an old grudge, or he could have been scooped.
I sensed he'd been chastised to silence by his wife.
She began to cry; something my wife almost never does.
I followed in my wife's footsteps.
He could tell by the look on his wife's face that she shared his concern.
He was interested but perplexed about the March date when Byrne was excused from work—without his wife's knowledge.
She added, "Leland Anderson's wife Marian says you're a schmuck for not solving the Byrne thing and causing her to lose her bet."
However painful it may be to me, should the Almighty lay the duties of wife and mother upon me I shall try to perform them as faithfully as I can, without disquieting myself by examining my feelings toward him whom He may give me for husband.
Prince Andrew got out of the carriage, helped his little wife to alight, and let her pass into the house before him.
The house for your wife is ready.
What a treasure of a wife you have, said she, sitting down on the sofa, facing her brother.
I do not think I have complained of my wife to you, Masha, or blamed her.
When he reached his sister's room his wife was already awake and her merry voice, hurrying one word after another, came through the open door.
This very sentence about Countess Zubova and this same laugh Prince Andrew had already heard from his wife in the presence of others some five times.
He saw that his championship of the doctor's wife in her queer trap might expose him to what he dreaded more than anything in the world--to ridicule; but his instinct urged him on.
On either side of her sat the more important guests--an old general and his wife, and Anna Pavlovna Scherer.
The old general grumbled at his wife when she asked how his leg was.
When Prince Vasili returned to the drawing room, the princess, his wife, was talking in low tones to the elderly lady about Pierre.
Is his wife with him? he asked.
A week later Pierre gave his wife full power to control all his estates in Great Russia, which formed the larger part of his property, and left for Petersburg alone.
Prince Andrew went again to his wife and sat waiting in the room next to hers.
The postmaster, his wife, the valet, and a peasant woman selling Torzhok embroidery came into the room offering their services.
My wife--as she once was--did not struggle, and perhaps she was right.
But the story of the duel, confirmed by Pierre's rupture with his wife, was the talk of society.
Had his wife come to him, he would not have turned her away.
Compared to what preoccupied him, was it not a matter of indifference whether he lived with his wife or not?
Without replying either to his wife or his mother-in-law, Pierre late one night prepared for a journey and started for Moscow to see Joseph Alexeevich.
I told my wife that I begged her to forget the past, to forgive me whatever wrong I may have done her, and that I had nothing to forgive.
It seemed to him that he ought to have an explanation with Natasha and tell her that the old times must be forgotten, that in spite of everything... she could not be his wife, that he had no means, and they would never let her marry him.
Put him beside his wife and he looks a regular buffoon!
At that ball Pierre for the first time felt humiliated by the position his wife occupied in court circles.
Berg, judging by his wife, thought all women weak and foolish.
Berg rose and embraced his wife carefully, so as not to crush her lace fichu for which he had paid a good price, kissing her straight on the lips.
Husband and wife glanced at one another, both smiling with self-satisfaction, and each mentally claiming the honor of this visit.
I do not think he would choose her for a wife, and frankly I do not wish it.
Mitenka's wife and sisters-in-law thrust their heads and frightened faces out of the door of a room where a bright samovar was boiling and where the steward's high bedstead stood with its patchwork quilt.
Such were Dimmler the musician and his wife, Vogel the dancing master and his family, Belova, an old maiden lady, an inmate of the house, and many others such as Petya's tutors, the girls' former governess, and other people who simply found it preferable and more advantageous to live in the count's house than at home.
And tapping with her heels, she ran quickly upstairs to see Vogel and his wife who lived on the upper story.
But instead of all that--here he was, the wealthy husband of an unfaithful wife, a retired gentleman-in-waiting, fond of eating and drinking and, as he unbuttoned his waistcoat, of abusing the government a bit, a member of the Moscow English Club, and a universal favorite in Moscow society.
She was the Countess Bezukhova, Pierre's wife, and the count, who knew everyone in society, leaned over and spoke to her.