ex-wifenoun [ C ]
uk/ˌeksˈwaɪf/us/ˌeksˈwaɪf/Someone's ex-wife is the woman they were once married to.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships
- adulteress
- affinal
- as husband and wife idiom
- be an item idiom
- be shacked up idiom
- hitched
- honest
- husband
- intermarriage
- involvement
- marriage equality
- marriage guidance
- marriageable
- marry
- marry in haste, repent at leisure idiom
- matrimonial
- shack up
- something
- together
- wedlock
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Examples from literature
- My ex-wife had even used another, extremely bad word instead of "person", without him daring to hold her responsible for this in court.
- The husband married again, and on his return to Massachusetts, his ex-wife petitioned the Massachusetts court to adjudge him in contempt for failing to make payments for her separate support under the earlier Massachusetts decree.
- This was because he had contacted with my ex-wife.