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MARRIED WOMAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A married woman; a man's partner in marriage

Synonyms:

married woman; wife

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("married woman" is a kind of...):

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

better half; married person; mate; partner; spouse (a person's partner in marriage)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "married woman"):

viscountess (a wife or widow of a viscount)

vicereine (wife of a viceroy)

ux.; uxor ((legal terminology) the Latin word for wife)

trophy wife (a wife who is an attractive young woman; seldom the first wife of an affluent older man)

signora (an Italian title of address equivalent to Mrs. when used before a name)

sheika; sheikha (the wife of a sheik)

old lady (your own wife)

missis; missus (informal term of address for someone's wife)

mayoress (the wife of a mayor)

matron (a married woman (usually middle-aged with children) who is staid and dignified)

marchioness (the wife or widow of a marquis)

homemaker; housewife; lady of the house; woman of the house (a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income)

honest woman (a wife who has married a man with whom she has been living for some time (especially if she is pregnant at the time))

golf widow (a wife who is left alone much of the time because her husband is playing golf)

first lady (the wife of a chief executive)

crown princess (the wife of a crown prince)

battle-ax; battle-axe (a sharp-tongued domineering wife)

Instance hyponyms:

Bathsheba ((Old Testament) the wife of Uriah and later the wife of king David; Solomon was her son by David (circa 10th century BC))

Catherine; Catherine of Aragon (first wife of Henry VIII; Henry VIII's divorce from her was the initial step of the Reformation in England (1485-1536))

Anne Hathaway; Hathaway (wife of William Shakespeare (1556-1623))

Rachel ((Old Testament) the second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin)

Rebecca; Rebekah ((Old Testament) wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau)

Ruth (the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament)

Sarah ((Old Testament) the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac)

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