Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without a spouse; unmarried or widowed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of a spouse; unmarried.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without a
spouse ;unmarried .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Okay, we'll admit we have our moments - those times when the idea of not having to discuss every little decision with someone else has us looking longingly back to our spouseless days - but those moments are few and fleeting.
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If polygamy were legalized, polygynous marriages (one man, many wives) would undoubtedly outnumber polyandrous ones — and when one man married four women, three other men would be left spouseless.
Polygamy 2006
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The lower survival rates for the spouseless were found primarily in men who were widowed, separated or divorced, rather than in those who had never been married.
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But when a team of researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, reported a few weeks ago that middle-aged men without wives were actually twice as likely to die during a 10-year span as men with wives, the espoused and the spouseless alike stopped to take notice.
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If polygamy were legalized, polygynous marriages (one man, many wives) would undoubtedly outnumber polyandrous ones — and when one man married four women, three other men would be left spouseless.
Polygamy 2006
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Emotional and social factors probably also played a role in higher mortality among the spouseless men.
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Would we not vote for a presidential candidate who was spouseless?
The lovely and expressive Michelle Obama spoke in Madison, Wisconsin today. Ann Althouse 2008
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I, the perpetually frazzled spouseless mom, arrived all flustered and not-together.
Archive 2005-01-01 2005
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The increased prevalence of divorce and the increased tendency to bear children out of wedlock or, equivalently, not to necessarily marry when having a child discussed in earlier chapters are among the leading causes of this increase in spouseless families.
The Population of the United States Douglas L. Anderton 1997
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"Nay, since Nanette ran off with a street singer and left me spouseless, I have made a vow of celibacy," hastily answered the piping voice of the lank scholar.
Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham
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