Thesaurus:wife

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

• husband    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• grey mare
• housewife

Hypernyms

• lover    [⇒ thesaurus]
• partner
• significant other
• spouse    [⇒ thesaurus]

Holonyms

• WAG

Various

• autem mort (archaic, UK, cant)

See also

• fiancée
• girlfriend
• widow

Further reading

• “903. marraige” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “wife” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.