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BRIDE |
Newly-married woman |
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SIGNORA |
Married woman |
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WIFE |
Married woman |
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MADAM |
Married woman’s title |
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MRS |
Married woman’s title |
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SENORA |
Married Spanish woman |
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FRAU |
Married German woman |
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WEDLOCK |
A wife; a married woman. |
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MISTRESS |
A married woman; a wife. |
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CICISBEO |
A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about
women. |
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MARRRIED |
Being in the state of matrimony; wedded; as, a married
man or woman. |
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SPOUSE |
A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married
person, husband or wife. |
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COUPLE |
A male and female associated together; esp., a man and
woman who are married or betrothed. |
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MATRONAL |
Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady
or to a married woman; grave; motherly. |
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ADULTERER |
A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual
intercourse with a woman not his wife. |
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CONCUBINAGE |
The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not
legally married; the state of being a concubine. |
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WIDOW |
A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not
married again; one living bereaved of a husband. |
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MISS |
A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman
who has not been married. See Mistress, 5. |
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GRISETTE |
A French girl or young married woman of the lower class;
more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry. |
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DIVORCE |
The separation of a married woman from the bed and board
of her husband -- divorce a mensa et toro (/ thoro), "from bed board." |
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DISCOVERT |
Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony;
unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a
widow. |
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COVERT |
Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert,
a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and
control of her husband. |
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MAIDEN |
Never having been married; not having had sexual
intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the
man; as, a maiden aunt. |
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MARRIAGE |
The act of marrying, or the state of being married;
legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife;
wedlock; matrimony. |
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NEE |
Born; -- a term sometimes used in introducing the
name of the family to which a married woman belongs by birth; as,
Madame de Stael, nee Necker. |