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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wife
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
future wife/husband/son-in-law etc (=someone who will be your wife, husband, son-in-law etc)
jealous husband/wife/lover etc
late husband/wife
▪ Mrs. Moore’s late husband
long-suffering wife
▪ his long-suffering wife
loving wife/family/parents etc
▪ the confidence he had gained from having a warm and loving family
Wife Swap
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
young
▪ I looked at his young wife, Dawn, with her four young children visiting Salisbury for the week-end.
▪ In addition, Feffer was a busy seducer, especially, it seemed, of young wives.
▪ Gail is very encouraged by a young wives group she started with a friend.
▪ He regained consciousness and crawled back to the house to be taken care of by his young wife.
▪ Oh yes - naturally - a young wife needed a home of her own.
▪ Unlike his much younger wife and his children, he was conservative, loyal to the ways of the old country.
▪ Fred watched his young wife go through her weekly ritual thinking how beautiful she looked.
▪ The Eldest Son's young wife was there.
■ VERB
kill
▪ Both families refuse to believe Ian would kill his wife and children.
▪ Grab your child as Blue Beard prepares to kill his wife and slump over when the brothers kill him.
▪ The prosecution had claimed that the furniture factory boss resolved to kill his second wife Helen when she walked out on him.
▪ Would he change his mind, Shaw asked, if some one raped and killed his wife, Kitty?
▪ Before driving off, they threatened to kill his wife and young daughter if he did not wait before raising the alarm.
▪ Magistrate accused of trying to kill his wife.
▪ No, I didn't kill my wife.
leave
▪ He has no plans to leave his wife.
▪ He left his wife, two sons and two daughters behind in Pyongyang.
▪ Desmond Wilcox was a grown man when he chose to leave his wife and children and set up home with Esther.
▪ Keaton solves that problem by having himself cloned, leaving his wife with more husbands than any woman bargained for.
▪ Almost all household chores and the raising of children is left up to the wife.
▪ He leaves his wife, Patricia Schartle Myrer.
▪ They told him repeatedly to leave his wife.
▪ He could leave his wife and marry her.
live
▪ Now he had a job in the dockyards at Emden where he lived with his wife.
▪ Uncle Harvey lived with his wife and daughter at the crest of one such hill.
▪ A married man living with his wife may also be able to claim part of the married couple's allowance.
▪ He lives with his wife and two small children near Amherst, Mass.
▪ But in Kemerovo, where he lives with his wife and three children, the shops are nearly empty.
love
▪ He loves his wife and daughters.
▪ Mr Wade loved his wife, anybody could see that.
▪ I can love my wife in the usual way and I can love Shinko in the unusual way!
▪ I love her as wives love their husbands, as friends who have taken each other for life.
▪ Was it possible to be unfaithful yet still love your wife?
▪ He loved his wife and child.
▪ You love your wife, Douglas.
▪ It never taught the next thing, that the husband is to love his wife as his own body.
meet
▪ Morse looked at his watch: just after half-past six - and Downes would be meeting his wife at seven o'clock.
▪ DeVito met his future wife while performing onstage as a demented stable boy.
▪ Then about five years ago 1 met his wife at a concert.
▪ He took out a handkerchief and dried his face, hid behind it to prepare an expression to meet his wife.
▪ You met my wife a few years ago when she came around to let you know about the Neighborhood Watch program?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
battered woman/wife/husband/baby etc
▪ It was not intended to suggest that these were battered wives.
▪ Moreover, battered women often wind up dropping the charges as reconciliation with the abuser.
▪ Now the ikons of female suffering are all around us; the image of the battered woman is high fashion.
▪ The church has already erred on this side in the counsel it has given battered women.
▪ The groups most adamant about denying help to battered women were the conservative fundamentalists and some orders of Catholicism.
▪ The person on call made us a cup of tea - battered wives' homes are the greatest!
▪ They took us to the police station and then to a battered women's house at about 2 a.m.
▪ We have often been tempted to abandon this task; then another battered woman would come into our lived.
common-law marriage/husband/wife
deserted wife/husband/child etc
▪ In practice, the treatment of widows and deserted wives varied considerably from region to region.
husband and wife
▪ A husband and wife partnership ran a chemist's shop.
▪ Both husband and wife are undecided and somewhat ambivalent about having a child, or buying a house.
▪ If husband and wife are entertaining, then invite another couple.
▪ It's seems that their marriage is a lost cause in which possess the husband and wife not real affection for one another.
▪ Now we had to get the document that would officially make us husband and wife.
▪ The husband and wife, reaching the woods, separated in search of game.
▪ The distribution in the next generation depends on the correlation between the wealth of husbands and wives.
▪ The Plot A husband and wife longed for a child, and after many years the wife became pregnant.
leave a wife/children etc
▪ He leaves a wife and three children.
▪ Joel Gascoyne died in London 13 February 1705 leaving a wife, Elizabeth.
▪ Mr Fraser-Smith, who lived in Devon, leaves a wife and two children.
▪ Professor Brown, who was 47, leaves a wife Evelyn, also an Open University tutor and 3 children.
▪ The college also offers a creche for two to five-year-olds so that parents can leave children in safe hands.
live as man and wife
man and wife
▪ Mom burst into tears as the minister pronounced us man and wife.
▪ Terry and Meena aren't married but they live together as man and wife.
▪ As man and wife, we will be one flesh.
▪ Binyomin and Tsila had not only kissed but were on the verge of becoming man and wife in earnest.
▪ Both are considered totally private affairs, the secret of which is often not even shared between man and wife.
▪ But they were as man and wife.
▪ It was thought preferable for the schoolmaster and schoolmistress to be man and wife.
▪ One such dispute was settled by Marie with a verdict apparently asserting that true love can not exist between man and wife.
▪ The man and wife arrested with him have been bailed but probably face further questioning about suspected harbouring of an escaped prisoner.
▪ The victims were man and wife.
model wife/employee/student etc
▪ Afterwards she would be full of remorse and would return to playing the clean-living model student.
▪ First, she had to have earned good grades; second, she had to have been a model student.
▪ He is in other words a model student though not necessarily a good one.
▪ How is that model employee of yours?
▪ In all she was a model wife, and earned the esteem of everyone in the town.
▪ Two other girls were model students.
▪ Unlike Aung San and Sukarno he was a model student, excelling despite his marginal position.
▪ Xavier Hicks, model student, was being charged with assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a concealed weapon.
old wives' tale
▪ It's not true that if trees have a lot of fruit in the autumn it will be a cold winter - that's just an old wives' tale.
▪ And so the old wives' tale continues.
▪ I think it's an old wives' tale that make-up ruins the skin.
▪ Some dismiss these as myth in the sense of old wives' tales.
▪ That's only an old wives' tale.
▪ The old wives' tales that have answered the pleas of fathers for centuries are mostly ineffective.
▪ Whatever doctors, old wives' tales, and the Roman Catholic Church may say, human ovulation is invisible and unpredictable.
sb's estranged husband/wife
the world and his wife
▪ It seemed that all the world and his wife were in Madrid.
▪ Nick and Clem will have invited half the world and his wife, anyway.
▪ Now all the world and his wife seems to have heard of them!
▪ Only all the world and his wife, if I know Igor.
▪ The reason the world and his wife head for these shores is they know that their chances of deportation are virtually non-existent.
▪ This also facilitated close up shots to be taken without the world and his wife looking on.
trophy wife
▪ The resort was full of doctors and lawyers with their trophy wives.
▪ Unless it would be for wealthy men interested in acquiring as trophy wives lapsed radicals who look great in workout gear.
wife/child beater
▪ Kurt was a Bible-college student and a wife beater.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Have you met my wife, Doris?
▪ Have you met the Ambassador's wife?
▪ He remarried after his first wife died of cancer.
▪ My wife's career is very important to her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Brown looked at a photograph of his wife on his desk.
▪ His death came on Christmas Day, 1875, three months after his wife, Margaret, and baby died in childbirth.
▪ How is it you were able to get your wife out?
▪ Men who want their wives at home.
▪ One year he arrived with a young lady, then came back when she was his wife.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wife

Wife \Wife\, n.; pl. Wives. [OE. wif, AS. wif; akin to OFries. & OS. wif, D. wijf, G. weib, OHG. w[=i]b, Icel. v[=i]f, Dan. viv; and perhaps to Skr. vip excited, agitated, inspired, vip to tremble, L. vibrare to vibrate, E. vibrate. Cf. Tacitus, [`` Germania'' 8]: Inesse quin etiam sanctum aliquid et providum putant, nec aut consilia earum aspernantur aut responsa neglegunt. Cf. Hussy a jade, Woman.]

  1. A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like. `` Both men and wives.''
    --Piers Plowman.

    On the green he saw sitting a wife.
    --Chaucer.

  2. The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a man in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married woman; -- correlative of husband. `` The husband of one wife.''
    --1 Tin. iii. 2.

    Let every one you . . . so love his wife even as himself, and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
    --Eph. v. 3

  3. To give to wife, To take to wife, to give or take (a woman) in marriage.

    Wife's equity (Law), the equitable right or claim of a married woman to a reasonable and adequate provision, by way of settlement or otherwise, out of her choses in action, or out of any property of hers which is under the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, for the support of herself and her children.
    --Burrill.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wife

Old English wif (neuter) "woman, female, lady," also, but not especially, "wife," from Proto-Germanic *wiban (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian wif, Old Norse vif, Danish and Swedish viv, Middle Dutch, Dutch wijf, Old High German wib, German Weib), of uncertain origin, not found in Gothic.\n

\nApparently felt as inadequate in its basic sense, leading to the more distinctive formation wifman (source of woman). Dutch wijf now means, in slang, "girl, babe," having softened somewhat from earlier sense of "bitch." German cognate Weib also tends to be slighting or derogatory and has been displaced by Frau.\n

\nThe more usual Indo-European word is represented in English by queen/ quean. Words for "woman" also double for "wife" in some languages. Some proposed PIE roots for wife include *weip- "to twist, turn, wrap," perhaps with sense of "veiled person" (see vibrate); and more recently *ghwibh-, a proposed root meaning "shame," also "pudenda," but the only examples of it would be the Germanic words and Tocharian (a lost IE language of central Asia) kwipe, kip "female pudenda."\n

\nThe modern sense of "female spouse" began as a specialized sense in Old English; the general sense of "woman" is preserved in midwife, old wives' tale, etc. Middle English sense of "mistress of a household" survives in housewife; and the later restricted sense of "tradeswoman of humble rank" in fishwife. By 1883 as "passive partner in a homosexual couple." Wife-swapping is attested from 1954.

Wiktionary
wife

n. A marry woman, especially in relation to her spouse.

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WordNet
wife

  1. n. a married woman; a man's partner in marriage [syn: married woman] [ant: husband]

  2. [also: wives (pl)]

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Wikipedia
Wife

A wife is a female partner in a continuing marital relationship. A wife may also be referred to as a spouse, which is a gender-neutral term. The term continues to be applied to a woman who has separated from her partner and ceases to be applied to such a woman only when her marriage has come to an end following a legally recognized divorce or the death of her spouse. On the death of her partner, a wife is referred to as a widow, but not after she is divorced from her partner.

The rights and obligations of the wife in relation to her partner and her status in the community and in law varies between cultures and has varied over time.

Wife (novel)

Wife (1975) is a novel by noted author, Bharati Mukherjee.

Wife (disambiguation)

A wife is a female participant in a marriage.

Wife or WIFE may also refer to:

WIFE (musician)

WIFE is the solo project of Irish musician and singer James Kelly, formerly of the group Altar of Plagues. The first WIFE single was released in October 2012 when Pitchfork premiered "Bodies".

The debut WIFE album, What's Between, was released on Tri Angle (record label) in June 2014 and featured additional production from The Haxan Cloak and Roly Porter. The video for lead single "Heart is a Far Light" was released in July 2014

Kelly participated in the 2014 edition of the Red Bull Music Academy, which took place in Tokyo, Japan.

Wife (film)

Wife (妻 Tsuma) is a film directed by Japanese director Mikio Naruse originally released in 1953. It is based on the novel Chairo no me, written by Fumiko Hayashi in 1950. Like other Naruse films from this period, such as Repast and Husband and Wife, the theme of Wife involves a couple trapped with each other. Another theme common to several Naruse films of the period is the way loving relationships dissipate as a result of economic pressures. And like two other Naruse films based on novels by Hayashi, Repast and Lightning, the story involves a stale marriage and unhappy family.

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Usage examples of "wife".

They all shuffle, all these strange lonely children of God, these mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, husbands and wives whose noisy aberrations are safely muffled now by drugs.

Here was my wife, who had secretly aided and abetted her son in his design, and been the recipient of his hopes and fears on the subject, turning to me, who had dared to utter a feeble protest or two only to be scoffed at, and summarily sat upon, asking if the game was really safe.

Then the witch with her abhominable science, began to conjure and to make her Ceremonies, to turne the heart of the Baker to his wife, but all was in vaine, wherefore considering on the one side that she could not bring her purpose to passe, and on the other side the losse of her gaine, she ran hastily to the Baker, threatning to send an evill spirit to kill him, by meane of her conjurations.

His carriage, with his wife and two daughters already aboard and Cram scowling on the box beside the driver, stood by the front door.

I can assure you I have quite a lot at my disposal all kinds of different spells fee faw fums, mumbo jumbos, abraxas, love potions, he glanced quickly at the queen here and added, though I see you have no need of the last of those, having a very beautiful wife whom you love to distraction.

Frederick West had also perfected a sexual harness to keep his victim utterly immobile while he and his wife abused her.

In spite of what Frederick West may or may not have told his father-in-law about his dislike for the abuse of his daughter Anna-Marie, there is no doubt that both he and his wife independently sexually abused the twelve-year-old.

Now fourteen, she had been abused by West and his wife for six years, regularly supplying him with sexual favors, and suffering physical abuse from his wife with equal regularity.

If Glenn Abies is murdered, or if any harm comes to his wife or any one of his five innocent children then in the name of all that is Christian and Good, the second American Revolution will begin right here.

Swearing under his breath, Ace hurried to help the young wife to her feet.

Of a sudden, he ached to consummate this marriage with his wedded wife.

Tramontini, with whom I had become acquainted, presented him to his wife, who was called Madame Tasi.

While the lack of physical adaptitude may be the occasion of much suffering and unhappiness in such unions, especially on the part of the wife, being even productive of most serious local disease, and sometimes of sterility, it is in childbirth that the greatest risk and suffering is incurred.

Often those addicted turned out to be not only doctors and dentists but their wives, too.

Nevada, in the absence of acquiring jurisdiction over the wife, was held incapable of adjudicating the rights of the wife in the prior New York judgment awarding her alimony.