spouseless

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English spouselees, spowseles; equivalent to spouse +‎ -less.

Adjective

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spouseless (not comparable)

  1. Without a spouse; unmarried.
    • 2007 February 11, Byron Calame, “Can a 15-Year-Old Be a ‘Woman Without a Spouse’?”, in New York Times[1]:
      But the new majority materialized only because The Times chose to use survey data that counted, as spouseless women, teenagers 15 through 17 — almost 90 percent of whom were living with their parents.