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- Dictionaryspouse/spous/
noun
- 1. a husband or wife, considered in relation to their partner: "communication is the key to understanding your spouse, partner, or significant other"
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The meaning of SPOUSE is married person : husband, wife. How to use spouse in a sentence.
a person’s husband or wife. (Definition of spouse from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of spouse. spouse. Moreover, when female members could not attend training events or visits for personal reasons, their spouses came forward to represent the families. From the Cambridge English Corpus.
A spouse is your companion, your mate, your partner. In ye olden times, spouse was used as a verb meaning “to marry,” but nowadays, it functions as a noun referring to either husband or wife.
Someone’s spouse is the person who they’re married to—their partner in marriage. A spouse who’s a man is often called a husband, while a spouse who’s a woman is often called a wife. The word partner is a gender-neutral way to refer to one’s spouse.
spouse. (spaʊs ) Word forms: plural spouses. countable noun. Someone's spouse is the person they are married to. Synonyms: partner, mate, husband or wife, companion More Synonyms of spouse. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. British English pronunciation.
a person’s husband or wife. (Definition of spouse from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of spouse. spouse. And they have to say that in front of the nonmember spouse. From NPR. What is the other spouse supposed to do? From Huffington Post.
noun partner, mate, husband or wife, companion, consort, significant other (U.S. informal), better half (humorous), her indoors (Brit. slang), helpmate, bidie-in (Scot.), squeeze (informal) living with someone other than a spouse.
