spouse, partner, married person, mate, better half
(noun) a person’s partner in marriage
Source: WordNet® 3.1
spouse (plural spouses)
A person in a marriage or marital relationship.
• spouse
• husband
• wife
spouse (third-person singular simple present spouses, present participle spousing, simple past and past participle spoused)
(dated) To wed; to espouse.
• opuses
Source: Wiktionary
Spouse, n. Etym: [OF. espous, espos, fem. espouse, F. Ă©poux, Ă©pouse, fr. L. sponsus, sponsa, prop. p.p. of spondere, sponsum, to promise solemnly, to engage one's self. Cf. Despond, Espouse, respond, Sponsor.]
1. A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife. At last such grace I found, and means I wrought, That that lady to my spouse had won. Spenser.
2. A married man, in distinct from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband. [Obs.] At which marriage was [were] no person present but the spouse, the spousess, the Duchess of Bedford her mother, the priest, two gentlewomen, and a young man. Fabyan.
Spouse, v. t. Etym: [See Espouse, and Spouse, n.]
Definition: To wed; to espouse. [Obs.] This markis hath her spoused with a ring. Chaucer. Though spoused, yet wanting wedlock's solemnize. Spenser. She was found again, and spoused to Marinell. Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
