wife
noun
a married woman, especially when considered in relation to her partner in marriage.
Example Sentences
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She studied architecture in Delhi, and married an independent film-maker, Pradip Krishen, but had no interest in the respectable conventions of wifeliness or motherhood.
From The Guardian ● May 27, 2017
She’s acting symbolism and tragedy in a way only partly to do with her husband’s assassination and everything to do with performing docility, sympathy, wifeliness, decorum, strength and bereavement for an expectant nation.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2016
But the irony is that, fur rug or not, by her own account, there is no more traditional avatar of wifeliness than Melania Trump.
From MSNBC ● Mar. 24, 2016
Ultimately, the base state of the job of first lady is gendered, a model of wifeliness.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 21, 2016
She was the incarnation of the Eternal Feminine, with all the wifeliness and the maternity left out—she was ancient, yet ever young, and familiar as joy or tears or sin.
From The Shape of Fear by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
