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noun (n)

• a married woman; a man's partner in marriage(noun.person)

  Synonym:
  married woman
  Antonym:
  hubby, husband, married man
  

  source: wordnet30
• A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.(noun)

  source: webster1913