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MAN AND WIFE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Two people who are married to each other
Example:
a married couple without love
Synonyms:
man and wife; marriage; married couple
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("man and wife" is a kind of...):
family; family unit (primary social group; parents and children)
Meronyms (members of "man and wife"):
better half; married person; mate; partner; spouse (a person's partner in marriage)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "man and wife"):
mixed marriage (marriage of two people from different races or different religions or different cultures)
