MARRIED WOMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does married woman mean? 

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

1. a married woman; a man's partner in marriage

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARRIED WOMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A married woman; a man's partner in marriage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

married woman; wife

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

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

better half; married person; mate; partner; spouse (a person's partner in marriage)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "married woman"):

crown princess (the wife of a crown prince)

viscountess (a wife or widow of a viscount)

vicereine (wife of a viceroy)

ux.; uxor ((legal terminology) the Latin word for wife)

trophy wife (a wife who is an attractive young woman; seldom the first wife of an affluent older man)

signora (an Italian title of address equivalent to Mrs. when used before a name)

sheika; sheikha (the wife of a sheik)

old lady (your own wife)

missis; missus (informal term of address for someone's wife)

mayoress (the wife of a mayor)

matron (a married woman (usually middle-aged with children) who is staid and dignified)

marchioness (the wife or widow of a marquis)

homemaker; housewife; lady of the house; woman of the house (a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income)

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

golf widow (a wife who is left alone much of the time because her husband is playing golf)

first lady (the wife of a chief executive)

battle-ax; battle-axe (a sharp-tongued domineering wife)

Instance hyponyms:

Bathsheba ((Old Testament) the wife of Uriah and later the wife of king David; Solomon was her son by David (circa 10th century BC))

Catherine; Catherine of Aragon (first wife of Henry VIII; Henry VIII's divorce from her was the initial step of the Reformation in England (1485-1536))

Anne Hathaway; Hathaway (wife of William Shakespeare (1556-1623))

Rachel ((Old Testament) the second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin)

Rebecca; Rebekah ((Old Testament) wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau)

Ruth (the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament)

Sarah ((Old Testament) the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac)

 Context examples 

A courtesy title prefixed to the name of a married woman.

(Mrs, NCI Thesaurus)

Jane, I take your place now, and you must go lower, because I am a married woman.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“If you are to blush to hear of such things now you are an old married woman, when are you not to blush to hear of them?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I used to be quite angry with Selina; but really I begin now to comprehend that a married woman has many things to call her attention.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A married woman grabs at her baby; an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“No,”—he calmly replied,—“there is but one married woman in the world whom I can ever allow to invite what guests she pleases to Donwell, and that one is—”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Virtually, an old married woman.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)