Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To marry (a woman).
- intransitive verb To provide a wife for.
- intransitive verb To marry a woman.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To take a wife; marry.
- To match to a wife; provide with a wife.
- To take for a wife; marry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To marry, as a man; to take a wife.
- transitive verb To match to a wife; to provide with a wife.
- transitive verb To take for a wife; to marry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
marry (a woman). - verb transitive To provide (someone) with a
wife .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb take (someone) as a wife
- verb marry a woman, take a wife
- verb provide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wife
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Rep. King spoke last night on the house floor claiming that his wive is in more danger living in DC than in Baghdad.
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Clearly, Swellfoot recognizes the reversals of power that his wife's return to public visibility forebode, and he articulates those reversals in terms of gendered maneuvers: the OED defines the verb "wive" as "to act as a wife"; thus, the King's exclamation that "Swellfoot is wived!" codes Iona's return as his own symbolic castration.
Shelley 2001
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Dollars spent, pennies earned: That "every dollar you spend" statement is more of an old wive's tale from say 1950.
What to expect from D.C.-area housing market this spring 2011
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Dollars spent, pennies earned: That "every dollar you spend" statement is more of an old wive's tale from say 1950.
What to expect from D.C.-area housing market this spring 2011
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*Leedz D-R to Splort Recubbery Rume, sitz u doan awn kumfy cwoch wive Cheezlan blankee rouwn yer showderz*
CATEAU DOMESTICO - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Mitt starts out with good hair and teeth, nice wive and kids, impressive business background, then – it turns out he is Satan!
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Many muslims men consider such punishment as soft compared to the stoning (of the girl who dare have a secret boy friend or the wive who is accused of adultry), or the dailly legal rape of some wives (fexemple forced mariage with a neighbour or a cousin she hate…) .
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A man and wive hunting team returned to a moose he had shot the day before.
Bear Vs. 2007
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It has been several months since they were all home for a weekend - but here they were, 2 with new wive.
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I told my other army wive friends the other day that despite it being all so very "Donna Reed", I like that my husband is happy.
chained_bear commented on the word wive
To take a wife, get married, marry.
October 9, 2007
madmouth commented on the word wive
you used to have to wive in order to swive...but not anymore, thank goodness.
June 19, 2009