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(n)
A husband, wife, companion or partner.
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A spouse or other person with whom one shares a domestic, romantic, or sexual bond.
A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
a person's partner in marriage
(adj)
Of or relating to marriage, or the relationship of spouses; connubial.
A married person.
A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.
(v)
(intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
A man who is about to marry.
A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
A person who has lost a spouse and not remarried:
(colloquial) Wife or girlfriend.
A man in the context of his own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.
Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
An adult female human.
(often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
A person who supplies help or companionship.
A type of company that is owned partially or wholly by its employees, customers or tenants.
(management) An organized group of people or entities who collaborate towards a particular goal
The people; the community.
Relating to common-law marriage.
In harmony.
Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
joined together; combined; joint
An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
The recipient of an annuity.
Used when giving the maiden name of a woman.
(proscribed) louse
A former spouse (from a previous marriage after a divorce).
A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or accompanies
A helpful partner, particularly a spouse.
Someone, especially a romantic partner, with whom one is exceptionally or uniquely compatible or has a special, almost spiritual connection.
(informal, endearing) Husband.
Of, befitting, pertaining to, or characteristic of a wife.
The condition or state of being married; wedlock, marriage.
The ex-wife of one's spouse.
A housewife, househusband, or nonbinary equivalent.
A person's spouse or lover, most commonly a man's wife.
(obsolete) A wife or bride.
A person whose spouse (wife or husband) is a member a nation's armed forces.
Adoption of a plan, cause, or idea.
Two people who are married to each other.
The sibling of one's spouse.
A companion; a fellow labourer, a person who works at the same task as another.
(chiefly in the plural, also figuratively) A companion; a comrade.
A co-wife in a polygamous marriage.
(idiomatic) A spouse or a significant other.
The spouse (or anyone of similar rank) of a chief executive of a nation; especially the spouse of the President of a country.
(colloquial) Another husband of one's wife. Typically used in cases of divorce and subsequent remarriage.
(uncountable) Marriage; the state of being married.
The brother of one's spouse.
The sister of one's spouse.
A person (not a spouse) with whom one lives and is romantically involved
A marriage.
(sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.
In a polygamous marriage, another wife of a woman’s husband.
The half sibling of one's spouse.
A recently married person.
A person who is engaged to be married.
A member of a civil partnership
A stepfather of one's spouse.
In a polygamous marriage, a woman who is simultaneously the sister and co-wife of another.
A romantic partner for life. This can be same-sex or opposite-sex, married or without marriage, and monogamous or polyamorous.
A person with whom someone has sex.
A spouse of one's child; a son-in-law or daughter-in-law
being married a second or third etc. time.
A male partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.
A stepmother of one's spouse.
(informal) Sexual activity between a married couple.
The role or status of a husband
The role or status of a wife.
The half brother of one's spouse.
The half sister of one's spouse.
(idiomatic, euphemistic) Sexual activity between a married couple.
The husband of one's child.
The marital state; being married.
An association or combination of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of engaging in a joint venture.
A female husbandman.
Someone who gets married, especially numerous times.
A househusband or housewife.
Husband or wife of one's cousin.
(biology) One of the organisms that associates with another species in consortism.
In a polyandrous marriage, another husband of a man’s wife.
One who intermarries.
(rare) One's spouse's sibling's spouse; either of two (or more) people who marry siblings, from the perspective of the other.
(often in the plural) A relative by marriage (or through affinity).
(law) A spouse that outlives the person to whom they are married, thereby obtaining legal rights with respect to the property of the deceased spouse.
A sexual partner, especially a woman, to whom one is not or cannot be married.
Having no husband or wife.