Ex-spouse
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A former spouse (from a previous marriage after a divorce).
"It must be maddening to know the chap has some more to spend, but one can't get at it. And after the divorce—and it is stricly comme il faut to divorce a millionaire husband with acrimony—the ex-spouses complain bitterly of being unable to maintain the life of luxury to which they have been trained on the paltry alimony forthcoming for the purpose."
- 2 a person who was formerly a spouse wordnet
Example
More examples"It must be maddening to know the chap has some more to spend, but one can't get at it. And after the divorce—and it is stricly comme il faut to divorce a millionaire husband with acrimony—the ex-spouses complain bitterly of being unable to maintain the life of luxury to which they have been trained on the paltry alimony forthcoming for the purpose."
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