HONEST WOMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does honest woman mean? 

• HONEST WOMAN (noun)
  The noun HONEST WOMAN has 1 sense:

1. a wife who has married a man with whom she has been living for some time (especially if she is pregnant at the time)

  Familiarity information: HONEST WOMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HONEST WOMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wife who has married a man with whom she has been living for some time (especially if she is pregnant at the time)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

he made an honest woman of her

Hypernyms ("honest woman" is a kind of...):

married woman; wife (a married woman; a man's partner in marriage)

 Context examples 

So am not I. I must store my plunder at this inn, since the hostess is an honest woman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I'll show these rogues that I'm an honest woman,” said my mother.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)