spouse
NounUS[spous]/spaʊs/1 syllable
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)spouses
- a person's partner in marriageSynonyms: partnermarried personmatebetter halfType of relative, domestic partnerKinds wife, husband, bigamist, newlywed, polygamist, helpmate, monogamist, consortMember of marriage, married couple
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Translations
Noun person in a marriage or marital relationship
- Spanish
- cónyuge
- French
- époux
- German
- Ehepartner
- Italian
- coniuge
- Portuguese
- cônjuge
- Turkish
- eş
- Russian
- супру́г suprúg
- Arabic
- زَوْج zawj
- Chinese
- 配偶 pèi'ǒu
- Japanese
- 配偶者 haigūsha
27 more languages
- Dutch
- echtgenoot
- Polish
- małżonka
- Swedish
- maka
- Greek
- σύζυγος sýzygos
- Korean
- 배우자 bae'uja
- Indonesian
- jodoh
- Vietnamese
- phối ngẫu
- Hungarian
- házastárs
- Portuguese (PT)
- cônjuge
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 配偶 pèi'ǒu
- Albanian
- burrë
- Catalan
- cònjuge
- Czech
- choť
- Danish
- ægtefælle
- Esperanto
- spozo
- Estonian
- abikaasa
- Finnish
- puoliso
- Georgian
- მეუღლე meuɣle
- Hebrew
- בֶּן זוּג ben zúg
- Icelandic
- maki
- Latvian
- dzīvesbiedrs
- Lithuanian
- vyras
- Norwegian
- ektefelle
- Romanian
- soț
- Scottish Gaelic
- cèile
- Slovak
- manžel
- Welsh
- priod
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Spouse (spouz), noun
Origin: OF. espous, espos, fem. espouse, F. époux, épouse, fr. L. sponsus, sponsa, prop. p. p. of spondere, sponsum, to promise solemnly, to engage one's self. Cf. Despond, Espouse, Respond, Sponsor.
1. A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife.
At last such grace I found, and means I wrought, That I that lady to my spouse had won.— Edmund Spenser
2. A married man, in distinction from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband. obsolete
At which marriage was [were] no persons present but the spouse, the spousess, the Duchess of Bedford her mother, the priest, two gentlewomen, and a young man.— Robert Fabyan
Spouse (spouz), transitive verb
Origin: See Espouse, and Spouse, noun
To wed; to espouse. obsolete
This markis hath her spoused with a ring.— Geoffrey Chaucer
Though spoused, yet wanting wedlock's solemnize.— Edmund Spenser
She was found again, and spoused to Marinell.— Edmund Spenser
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54