Thesaurus:wife
English
Noun
Sense: a married woman
Synonyms
- ball and chain (slang)
- better half (idiomatic)
- boss [⇒ thesaurus] (with "the")
- bride
- dutch (UK, slang)
- 'er indoors (UK, colloquial)
- frow
- geezer (archaic, UK, slang)
- her indoors (UK, colloquial)
- lady (historical)
- little woman (colloquial)
- little lady (colloquial)
- memsahib (historical)
- missus (colloquial)
- old lady (colloquial)
- old woman [⇒ thesaurus] (colloquial)
- trouble
- trouble and strife (Cockney rhyming slang)
- wife
- wifekin
- wifelet
- wifeling
- wifey (informal)
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- grey mare
- housewife
Hypernyms
Holonyms
Various
- autem mort (archaic, UK, cant)
See also
Further reading
- “903. marraige” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “wife” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.