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- Dictionaryspouse/spaʊs/
noun
- 1. a husband or wife, considered in relation to their partner: "communication is the key to understanding your spouse, partner, or significant other"
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The meaning of SPOUSE is married person : husband, wife. How to use spouse in a sentence.
a person’s husband or wife. (Definition of spouse from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of spouse. spouse. Moreover, when female members could not attend training events or visits for personal reasons, their spouses came forward to represent the families. From the Cambridge English Corpus.
Someone’s spouse is the person who they’re married to—their partner in marriage. A spouse who’s a man is often called a husband, while a spouse who’s a woman is often called a wife. The word partner is a gender-neutral way to refer to one’s spouse.
A spouse is your companion, your mate, your partner. In ye olden times, spouse was used as a verb meaning “to marry,” but nowadays, it functions as a noun referring to either husband or wife.
a person’s husband or wife. (Definition of spouse from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of spouse. spouse. And they have to say that in front of the nonmember spouse. From NPR. What is the other spouse supposed to do? From Huffington Post.
noun partner, mate, husband or wife, companion, consort, significant other (U.S. informal), better half (humorous), her indoors (Brit. slang), helpmate, bidie-in (Scot.), squeeze (informal) living with someone other than a spouse.
spouse in American English. (noun spaus, spauz, verb spauz, spaus) (verb spoused, spousing) noun. 1. either member of a married pair in relation to the other; one's husband or wife. transitive verb. 2. obsolete. to join, give, or take in marriage.
Definition of spouse noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
SPOUSE definition: your husband or wife. Learn more.
Noun. Verb. Filter. noun. spouses. A partner in marriage; (one's) husband or wife. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. A person's husband or wife. People should treat their spouses with respect. Wiktionary. Synonyms: married person. better half. mate. partner. roommate. companion. bridegroom. wife. bride. groom. husband. consort. helpmate.
