DIVORCEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does divorcee mean? 

• DIVORCEE (noun)
  The noun DIVORCEE has 1 sense:

1. a divorced woman or a woman who is separated from her husband

  Familiarity information: DIVORCEE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIVORCEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A divorced woman or a woman who is separated from her husband

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

divorcee; grass widow

Hypernyms ("divorcee" is a kind of...):

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

Instance hyponyms:

Duchess of Windsor; Mrs. Simpson; Simpson; Wallis Warfield Simpson; Wallis Warfield Windsor (United States divorcee whose marriage to Edward VIII created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication)

Derivation:

divorce (get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage)