wife

Converse of object

• estrange: Some say that Kinser, 33, was a man-about-town, who was having an affair with Malcolm's estranged wife.
• love: Dearly loved wife of Les, much loved mother of Barry, dear nan of Hannah.

Adjective modifier

• beloved: Tony has written elsewhere of his beloved wife: " She was my socialist soulmate.
• loving: Loving wife of the late Albert, and much loved mother of Reg and Neil.
• devoted: His son's behavior becomes increasingly bizarre and threatening and his devoted wife begins to grow distant.
• long-suffering: Colin Degrease, 32, donned the pristine Y-fronts at the insistence of his long-suffering wife Donna.
• ex: I don't seem to be able to come to terms with my feelings toward my husband's ex wife.
• second: He has an illegitimate child by the second wife who lives in Germany.

Modifies a noun

• tale: The second experiment was to see whether putting banana skins under cabbage plants made them grow faster as the old wives tale suggests.
• murderer: Welcome as fleas interviewed on october the young writer of wife murderers.
• team: We are a husband and wife team, Steve and Hannah Robinson.

Noun used with modifier

lady: But Nestor himself slept in the innermost room of the tall building, and with him his lady wife for love and comfort.

Possessives

• sister: Susan is surprised when she finds out she was Jerry's first wife's sister.
• death: They returned to Cambridge where, following his wife's death in 1991, he continued to live until his death on November 17.

Possessives

• footballer: That's odd; because I'm thinking footballer's wife crossed with Russian pimp.
• farmer: Into their world wanders a bored young farmer's wife who provokes a tragedy by playing the sex kitten.
• brother: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; she is your brother's nakedness.
• father: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.
• son: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.

Preposition: of

banker: Also on the series was Kelly Harmon as Sunny Hayward, the wife of a powerful banker who was having an affair with Joe.