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//waɪvz// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of wife form-of, plural
  2. 2
    genitive of wife form-of, genitive, obsolete

    "[…] beautie in his wiues face, will féede his heart with a thouſand delights: […]"

Example

More examples

"However, like America, Japan is predominantly a middle-class, middle-income country, and so wives do not employ maids, but attend to everything themselves."

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