wife
suomi-englanti sanakirjawife englannista suomeksi
vaimo, aviovaimo
wife englanniksi
(senseid)A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
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1952, P. G. Wodehouse, ''Big Business'', in A_Few_Quick_Ones|'A Few Quick Ones', Everyman, London: 2009, p 127-8.
- All through Reginald's deeply moving performance she had sat breathless, her mind in a whirl and her soul stirred to her very depths. With each low note that he pulled up from the soles of his shoes she could feel the old affection and esteem surging back into her with a whoosh, and long before he had taken his sixth bow she knew ... that it would be madness to try to seek happiness elsewhere, particularly as the wife of a man with large ears and no chin, who looked as if he were about to start in the two-thirty race at Kempton Park.
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(RQ:London Sea-Wolf)
(synonym of).(R:Century 191)
To marry (a woman).
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