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(n)
a married woman; a man's partner in marriage
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(colloquial) Wife or girlfriend.
A former wife (from a previous marriage after a divorce).
A person in a marriage or marital relationship.
A woman, a wife; (now chiefly Canada, US) a young woman or girl.
(now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
(formal, somewhat dated) A woman who is engaged to be married; the woman to whom one is engaged.
A polite form of address for a woman or lady.
A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
A married person.
A person who has lost a spouse and not remarried:
A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.
A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
A woman who is soon to be married.
(polite or used by children) A woman: an adult female human.
A sexual partner, especially a woman, to whom one is not or cannot be married.
(v)
(intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.
An adult female human.
A marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.
A female.
A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
The wife of one's child.
The state or condition of being a woman, as contrasted with being a girl, man, boy, or nonbinary.
(slightly dated) Used as a courtesy title before the surname of a (typically married) German-speaking woman.
The fourth sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
A female partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.
The condition of having more than one spouse or marriage partner at one time.
A female child.
Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
An adult male human.
(British) Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
(specifically) A girl or young woman of a lower class.
One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.
One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse.
(strictly) Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. See more synonyms at Thesaurus:cuckoldry
(slang) An attractive person, especially a young woman. [from 20th c.]
A husband, wife, companion or partner.
(usually derogatory) A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes.
(UK, colloquial) Alternative spelling or pronunciation spelling of missus. [(colloquial) Wife or girlfriend.]
An instance of squeezing.
The act by which something is swapped; an exchange.
The act by which somebody is handcuffed.
A heavy beating.
(adj)
(of a series of questions, etc.) Delivered in a rapid continuous stream.
(colloquial) A young woman or girl; generally a form of rural Southern slang.
(informal) a clownfish
A person belonging to one of several Turkic ethnic groups identifying as "Tatar" in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.
A western jackdaw, Coloeus monedula, a passerine bird in the crow family (Corvidae), more commonly called jackdaw.
(colloquial) An attractive, young woman; or, more generally, a woman.
Any of various shrubs or (mostly) small trees, of the genus Ilex, either evergreen or deciduous, used as decoration especially at Christmas.
Used when giving the maiden name of a woman.
A surname.
(N)
(Spanish: "Woman") the title of the first album by Spanish singer Marta Sánchez.
Synonym of SOWPODS.
Initialism of consensual nonmonogamy.
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 who supplies help or companionship.
Of, befitting, pertaining to, or characteristic of a wife.
A helpful partner, particularly a spouse.
A person's spouse or lover, most commonly a man's wife.
(idiomatic) A spouse or a significant other.
(literal, informal) An elderly woman.
(obsolete) A title of respect for a woman.
(slang, derogatory) One's wife, as a symbol of restraint.
One’s female offspring.
Alternative spelling of fiancée. [(formal, somewhat dated) A woman who is engaged to be married; the woman to whom one is engaged.]
A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
The daughter of one's spouse from a previous relationship.
Alternative spelling of fiancé. [A man who is engaged to be married; the man to whom one is engaged; an intended.]
The son of one's spouse from a previous relationship.
(informal, endearing) Husband.
Misspelling of daughter. [One’s female offspring.]
The daughter of someone's child.
Son of the same parents as another person.
A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
(in the narrow sense) The husband of one's biological mother after her initial marriage to or relationship with one's biological father.
One's male offspring.
A male partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.
A son of one's child.
A man whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); a man in relation to his late spouse; masculine of widow. [from 14th c.]