Definition of: wife

(wīf) noun plural wives (wīvz)
1. A woman joined to a man in lawful wedlock; a spouse: the correlative of husband. ♦ Collateral adjective: uxorial.
2. A grown woman; adult female: usually in composition or in certain phrases: housewife, old wives' tales.
—to take (a woman) to wife To marry (a woman). [OE wīf]
—wife′dom, wife′hood noun
—wife′less adjective
—wife′ly adjective