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wives

noun
WYVZ/waɪvz/

2 meanings of wives

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  1. 1
    noun
    Plural of wife.

    The soldiers' wives gathered at the gate to await news from the front.

    Both wives kept separate accounts of the household expenses.

    Note

    A plural made by voicing: the f of wife becomes v before the ending, the same pattern as knife and knives or life and lives, so the form is wives rather than wifes. It serves every noun sense of wife, including the Scottish use where a wife is simply a woman, and the female of a mated pair of animals. The same spelling once also did duty as the old possessive.

Less common meaning

  1. 2
    nounobsolete
    Genitive of wife.
    He found a freſh Subject for his Admiration, when he ſaw the Prickles on that which bore his Wives Name, and the two others without any.
    1711, [Laurent] B[ordelon], A History of the Ridiculous Extravagancies of Monsieur Oufle

wives is a form of wife

wife, noun: A person's female spouse, or more generally any married woman. Full entry

Forms
wifewives plural
Spelling
wife → wives: change fe to v, add -es

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