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
In sending the car for his idle use, Eve had performed a master-stroke which laid him low by its kindliness, its wifeliness, its touches of perverse self-sacrifice and of vague, delicate malice.
From Mr. Prohack by Arnold Bennett
