Spouse
[spaʊz;-s] or [spaʊs]
Definition
(n.) A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife.
(n.) A married man, in distinct from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband.
(n.) To wed; to espouse.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Husband or wife, married person, consort.
Typist: Tim
Definition
n. a husband or wife.—adj. Spous′al pertaining to a spouse or to marriage: nuptial: matrimonial.—n. usually in pl. nuptials: marriage.—adj. Spouse′less destitute of a spouse: unmarried.
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Examples
- Then my spouse unfortunately overworked herself in washing the house, so that we could do no longer without a maid. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- She showered upon him the tenderest epithets that love could devise, he addressed her from the North Pole of his frozen heart as the Spouse of Christ! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I thought as much, when you came in,' rejoined Monks, marking the angry glance which the lady darted at her spouse as she spoke. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- There are those who regard him as the creature of his mother's hatred of Ammon and the uxorious spouse of a beautiful wife. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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