[noun] [C] [plural] wives - the woman to whom a man is married; a married woman"I love you," he said. "Will you be my wife?"She's his third wife (= She is the third woman to whom he has been married).Wife swapping is when two sets of married people decide to have sex with each other's partners.
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Meaning of WIFE in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012