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Wife Woman Married Waɪf Waɪvz Noun Plural Man

The flashcard defines "wife" as a woman who is married to a man, providing phonetic transcriptions and example sentences from multiple sources like Collins and Oxford dictionaries. It also notes the plural form is "wives".

The flashcard defines "wife" as a woman who is married to a man, providing phonetic transcriptions and example sentences from multiple sources like Collins and Oxford dictionaries. It also notes the plural form is "wives".

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Collins
wife ★★★★★
/wa͟ɪf/
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]See also:
old wives’ tale
;妻子;太太;夫人 A man's wife is the woman he is married to.
  [usu with poss]
  • He married his wife Jane 37 years ago...

    他37年前娶了妻子简。

  • The woman was the wife of a film director.

    这个女人是一个电影导演的妻子。


Oxford wife ★ / waɪf ; NAmE waɪf / noun ( plural wives / waɪvz ; NAmE waɪvz / ) the woman that a man is married to; a married woman 妻子;太太;夫人;已婚妇女 ◆ the doctor's wife 医生的太太 ◆ She's his second wife. 她是他的第二个妻子。 ◆ an increase in the number of working wives 已婚职业妇女人数的增加 ☞ collocationsat
marriage
☞see also
fishwife
,
housewife
,
midwife
,
trophy wife
IDIOMsee
husband
  n.
,
old
,
world
wife wives
wife / waɪf ; NAmE waɪf / wives / waɪvz ; NAmE waɪvz /
LDC
wifewife /waɪf/ ●●● S1 W1 noun (plural wives /waɪvz/) [countable]
Word Origin
Examples
Thesaurus
Collocations
Phrases
the woman that a man is married to → husband, spouse:  Have you met my wife? a refuge for battered wives his second wifeex-wife/former wife He threatened to kill his ex-wife’s boyfriend.► see thesaurus at
married
WDF

wife

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Spoken:

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wives[13918]
妻子(95%),夫人(5%)
n.妻子,已婚妇女;夫人

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