wives  /w'ɑɪvz/

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資料來源(1): pydict data [pydict]

  wives
  wife的復數形式

資料來源(2): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Wife \Wife\, n.; pl. {Wives}. [OE. wif, AS. wif; akin to OFries.
     & OS. wif, D. wijf, G. weib, OHG. w[=i]b, Icel. v[=i]f, Dan.
     viv; and perhaps to Skr. vip excited, agitated, inspired, vip
     to tremble, L. vibrare to vibrate, E. vibrate. Cf. Tacitus,
     [`` Germania'' 8]: Inesse quin etiam sanctum aliquid et
     providum putant, nec aut consilia earum aspernantur aut
     responsa neglegunt. Cf. {Hussy} a jade, {Woman}.]
     1. A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only
        in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife,
        goodwife, and the like. `` Both men and wives.'' --Piers
        Plowman.
  
              On the green he saw sitting a wife.   --Chaucer.
  
     2. The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a
        man in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married
        woman; -- correlative of husband. `` The husband of one
        wife.'' --1 Tin. iii. 2.
  
              Let every one you . . . so love his wife even as
              himself, and the wife see that she reverence her
              husband.                              --Eph. v. 33.
  
     {To give to wife}, {To take to wife}, to give or take (a
        woman) in marriage.
  
     {Wife's equity} (Law), the equitable right or claim of a
        married woman to a reasonable and adequate provision, by
        way of settlement or otherwise, out of her choses in
        action, or out of any property of hers which is under the
        jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, for the support of
        herself and her children. --Burrill.

資料來源(3): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Wives \Wives\, n.,
     pl. of {Wife}.

資料來源(4): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

  wife
       n : a married woman; a man's partner in marriage [syn: {married
           woman}] [ant: {husband}]
       [also: {wives} (pl)]

資料來源(5): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

  wives
       See {wife}