Meaning of wife | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
2. The female of a pair of mated animals.
3. A woman joined to another person in marriage; a female spouse.
4. handcuff
5. take to wife, to marry (a particular woman): And he took to wife a woman of the next village.
6. Synonym of woman.
   Scotland
7. third-person singular present indicative
8. a combining form of wife, now unproductive, occurring in words that designate traditional roles or occupations of women: fishwife; goodwife; housewife; midwife.
9. second-person singular imperative
10. Obsolete, the condition of widowhood. Also viduity. — vidual, adj.
    Obsolete,
11. the woman to whom one is married. Come and meet my wife; He is looking for a wife. vrou زَوْجَه съпруга esposa manželka die (Ehe-)Frau kone η σύζυγος esposa, mujer naine, abikaasa زن vaimo femmeאישה पत्नी žena, supruga feleség istri eiginkona moglie 妻 아내 žmona sieva isteri echtgenotekone, hustrużona ماينه، ښځه، مېرمن esposa soţie жена manželka žena supruga fru, hustru ภรรยา eş, karı 妻子 дружина, жінка بیوی vợ 妻子
12. a superstitious and misleading story. ouvroustorie خُرافَة عَجائِز суеверие superstição babské řeči das Altweibermärchen ammestuehistorie λαϊκή δοξασία cuento de viejas vananaisteplära قصه های مادربزرگان kansanomainen uskomus conte de bonne femme סִיפּוּרֵי סָבתַא अंधविश्वास वाली और भ्रामक कहानी praznovjerna priča mesebeszéd tahayul kerlingabók, kredda, bábilja superstizione たわいのない話 (노파들의) 실없는 이야기 bobučių pasaka sievu tenkas; blēņas kepercayaan karut, tahyul oudewijvenpraat gammel overtro, ev...
13. the crime of beating one's own wife. vrouslanery ضَرْب المَرأَه насилие над съпругата crime doméstico bití manželky die Gewalt in der Ehe (gegen die Ehefrau) hustrumishandling κακοποίηση συζύγου malos tratos naisepeks قتل همسر vaimon pahoinpitely violence conjugale מַכֵּה נָשִים पत्नी को पीटने का अपराध zlostavljanje supruge feleségbántalmazás kejahatan memukul istri (il percuotere la propria moglie) 妻への暴力 아내 구타 smurto panaudojimas prieð þmonà, þmonos sumuðimas miesas bojājumu nodarīšana sieva...
14. esposa.
15. (Law) one's (female) partner in marriage; a married woman.
16. an archaic or dialect word for woman

Equivalents

Examples

“The Fisherman and His Wife”

“And I geue vnto the ſame Elizabeth my wif the ſparuers and hangings of the ſame twoo beddes vſuallye occupied, and hanging ouer and about the ſame twoo beddes[…]”

“This was a very hard problem; and the Rajah thought and thought, as hard as a Malay Rajah can be expected to think, but could not solve it; and so he was very unhappy, and did nothing but smoke and chew betel with his favourite wife, and eat scarcely anything; and even when he went to the cock-fight did not seem to care whether his best birds won or lost.”

“It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.”

“1952, P. G. Wodehouse, Big Business, in 'A Few Quick Ones', Everyman, London: 2009, p 127-8. All through Reginald's deeply moving performance she had sat breathless, her mind in a whirl and her soul stirred to her very depths. With each low note that he pulled up from the soles of his shoes she could feel the old affection and esteem surging back into her with a whoosh, and long before he had taken his sixth bow she knew ... that it would be madness to try to seek happiness elsewhere, particularly as the wife of a man with large ears and no chin, who looked as if he were about to start in the two-thirty race at Kempton Park.”

“Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.”

“A new wife for the gander is introduced into the pen.”

“I stepped out and advanced valiantly upon a long-maned bull in the midst of his wives. I was armed with the regular club with which the boat-pullers killed the wounded seals gaffed aboard by the hunters.”

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