Wife

Noun

 * 1) A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
 * 2) The female of a pair of mated animals.
 * A new wife for the gander is introduced into the pen.
 * 1)  A woman (compare old wife and aad wife).

Synonyms

 * partner (may or may not be married) (also applies to husband)
 * spouse (also applies to husband)
 * significant other (also applies to husband)
 * life-long partner (also applies to husband)
 * better half
 * little woman (slang)
 * See also Thesaurus:wife

Antonyms

 * husband

Derived terms

 * (From woman) alewife
 * (partner) co-wife
 * (partner) ex-wife
 * (woman) fishwife
 * (woman) goodwife
 * (partner) housewife
 * (partner) huswife
 * (partner) man and wife/I now declare you man and wife
 * (woman) midwife
 * (woman) old wife/old-wife/oldwife


 * (woman) pudding-wife
 * seawife
 * sister-wife
 * spaewife
 * (partner) trophy wife
 * (partner) wife-beater
 * (woman/partner) wifehood
 * (partner) wifeless
 * (woman) wifely
 * (partner) wifey

Adjectives for Wife
shrewish; meek-eyed; worthy; tearful; disrespectful; legitimate; stainless; delicate; profligate; faithless; high-corseted; prideful; sprightly; bejeweled; coquettish; devoted; high-spirited; splendid; querulous; flattered; unsustained; exemplary; playful; dutiful; burdensome; slovenly; frantic; respective (pi) ; conquering;  affectionate; trustful; sainted; temporary; spotless; forward; churchly; begotten; bullied; gracious; beaten; affianced; patient; sweet; virtuous; pale-faced; murdered; undivorced; unalien-able; whimpering; smooth-haired; celebrated; amiable; strong-willed; tyrannical; diminutive; mercenary; constant; lewd-tongued; chaste; lawful; attractive; innocent; young; execrable; shameless; nervous; simple; common-law; slippery; perjured; aristocratic; pale-cheeked; tender; prudent; pining.

Verbs for Wife
adore—; alienate—; caress—; choose—; cohabit with—; court—; desert—; embrace—; escort—; estrange from—; extol—; forsake —; intimidate—; seduce—; seek—; slander; -; clear—; dare—; exflee into—; forsake—; inhabit—; issue from —; strike—; take—; win—; —begets; — betrays; —comforts; —conceives; —haggles; —inspires; —mothers; —nags; —presides over; —rails; —shares.

Thesaurus
better half, bride, common-law wife, concubine, consort, dowager, feme, feme covert, goodwife, goody, helpmate, helpmeet, lady, married woman, mate, matron, old lady, old woman, other half, rib, spouse, squaw, wedded wife, woman

Etymology
wif: 'woman', from (compare West Frisian wiif:, Dutch wijf:, Low German Wief:, German Weib:), from  (compare Tocharian B kwipe: 'shame; vulva').

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian: կին
 * Basque: emazte
 * Belarusian:
 * Betawi:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: gwreg
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese: မယား, ဇနီး
 * Catalan: dona, muller
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,  ,
 * Min Nan:, , ,
 * Teochew: bhou2, lao6pua5
 * Cornish: gwreg
 * Crimean Tatar: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:, ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Greenlandic:
 * Guaraní: embireko (t-)
 * Hawaiian: wahine
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, बीवी
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: sponsa, sposa, uxor
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:,  ,
 * Kamba:
 * Khmer: ប្រពន្ធ
 * Kikuyu:
 * Korean:, ,  ,
 * Kurdish:, , , ,
 * Kurdish:, , , ,


 * Lao: (mia), ເມຍ
 * Latin:, ,
 * Latvian: dzīvesbiedre, sieva
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Luhya:
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Malayalam: ഭാര്യ, വിവാഹിത
 * Manchu: (sargan)
 * Manx: ben-phoost
 * Marathi: नवरी (navrī)
 * Mongolian: гэргий
 * Norwegian:, ,
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Glagolitic:
 * Old English: ,
 * Old French: ,
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Santali: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: bean-chèile, bean-phòsda
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: жена, супруга
 * Roman: žena, supruga
 * Sicilian: mugghieri
 * Sinhalese: බිරිඳ
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene: žena, soproga
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sundanese: garwa, bojo, pamajikan
 * Swahili: mke (nc 1/2),
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: மனைவி (manayvi), பொண்டாட்டி (poNDATTi)
 * Taos: łȉwéna
 * Telugu: పెళ్ళాం (peLLAM), భార్య (bhaarya), ఆలి (aali)
 * Thai:
 * Tupinambá: emirekó (t-)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: بيوی, پتنی
 * Vietnamese:, người vợ
 * Volapük: ,
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: ,
 * !Xóõ: tâa qáe
 * Yiddish: or ,

Noun

 * 1) wife.

Etymology
wīf "woman"