Usually means: Partner in marriage, female spouse.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word wife:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. wife: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wife: Merriam-Webster
  3. wife: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wife: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wife: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wife: Vocabulary.com
  7. WIfe, Wife, wife, wife: Wordnik
  8. wife: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wife: Wiktionary
  10. wife: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wife: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wife: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Wife, -wife, wife: Dictionary.com
  14. wife: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. wife: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Wife (Seinfeld), The Wife (film), The Wife, WIFE (musician), Wife (disambiguation), Wife (film), Wife (novel), Wife: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Wife: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. wife: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. wife: Rhymezone
  20. wife: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. wife: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. WIFE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. wife: FreeDictionary.org
  24. wife: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. wife: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. wife: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Wife: A DICTIONARY OF LAW (1893)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Wife: Legal dictionary
  5. wife: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wife: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. WIFE, WIFE, WIFE: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  4. WIFE: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. wife: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wife: Easton Bible
  2. Wife: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wife, wife: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. W.I.F.E, wife, the wife: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See wifehood as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
noun:  The female of a pair of mated animals.
noun:  (Scotland, puristic elsewhere) Synonym of woman.
verb:  (slang, African-American Vernacular) To marry (a woman).

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