a partner in marriage; (one's) husband or wife
Origin of spouse
Middle English spus from Old French espous from Classical Latin sponsus, betrothed, past participle of spondere: see sponsortransitive verb
spoused, spous′ingArchaic to marry; wed
noun
Your spouse is the person to whom you are married; your husband or wife.
An example of a spouse is your husband.
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spouse
noun
A marriage partner; a husband or wife.
transitive verb
spoused, spous·ing, spous·es ArchaicTo marry; wed.
Origin of spouse
Middle English from Old French spous from Latin spōnsus from past participle of spondēre to pledge ; see spend- in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present spouses, present participle spousing, simple past and past participle spoused)
Anagrams
Origin
From Anglo-Norman espus, espuse and Old French espos, espose and by aphasis from Latin spÅnsus (“bridegroom"), spÅnsa (“bride"), from spondere (“to vow, to pledge"), from Proto-Indo-European *spend-.
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Sentence Examples
- You and your spouse both like Oreos.
- And if everyone who hit their spouse landed in jail, we might be rather shocked at the percentage.
- Mary Thy Mother stopped at the foot of the Cross, but poverty mounted it with Thee and clasped Thee in her embrace unto the end; and when Thou wast dying of thirst, as a watchful spouse she prepared for Thee the gall.
- She is dressed in bridal white with wreath and veil, and receives a wedding-ring, as spouse of the Church.
- It might cross a person's mind now and then that their spouse might be unfaithful, but insisting on it for months was another thing.
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