spouse
IPA: spˈaʊs
noun
- A person in a marriage or marital relationship.
verb
- (dated) To wed; to espouse.
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Examples of "spouse" in Sentences
- He is the spouse of the man.
- Olla was spouse of blameless Seth.
- Who would want to have a tubby spouse
- The child becomes the parent's surrogate spouse.
- The public role of the first spouse is usually ceremonial.
- As a morganatic spouse, she was not styled the Dauphine of France.
- Persephone was the goddess of the underworld and the spouse of Hades.
- The Royal Consort of Ireland was the spouse of the monarch of Ireland.
- Besides, the First Lady isn't necessarily the spouse of the President.
- The criteria are the same for the spouses of the aforementioned awards.
- The term spouse is applied to married people until their marriage is consummated
- Your spouse is a veteran who awakes in the night in a sweat from nightmares and has anger outbursts during the day.
- Killing your spouse is an effective way of ending an argument but that doesn't make it OK; it's still murder and still illegal.
- Specifically, from 1973 through 2008, the percent who say that "a married person having sexual relations with someone other than their spouse is always wrong" has steadily decreased.
- The new marriage licenses - which add the term spouse - will be distributed to town and city clerk offices across the state in advance of the same-sex marriage law taking effect July 24.
- Section 3 of DOMA provides that for all purposes under federal law, the word "marriage" means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word "spouse" refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or wife.