WIFE
wife. A married woman; a woman who has a lawful husband living.
common-law wife.
1. The wife in a common-law marriage; a woman who contracts an informal marriage with a man and then holds herself out to the community as being married to him. See common-law marriage under MARRIAGE(1).
2. Archaic. Loosely, a concubine.
plural wife. One of two or more women married simultaneously to the same man in a polygamous marriage.
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