spouse

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /spaʊs/

Noun

spouse (plural spouses)

1. A person in a marriage or marital relationship.

   People should treat their spouses with respect.

   • At last such grace I found, and means I wrought, / That I that lady to my spouse had won.

Synonyms

• Thesaurus:spouse

Translations

• French: époux, épouse
• German: Gatte, Gattin, Ehepartner, Ehepartnerin
• Italian: sposo, sposa, coniuge
• Portuguese: cônjuge, esposo, esposa
• Russian: супру́г
• Spanish: cónyuge, esposo, esposa, consorte

Verb

spouse (spouses, present participle spousing; past spoused, past participle spoused)

1. (dated) To wed; to espouse.
   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act III, Scene II, verses 212-214

     Do you stand possess’d

     Of any proof against the honourableness

     Of Lady Auranthe, our new-spoused daughter?

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