MAN AND WIFE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does man and wife mean? 

• MAN AND WIFE (noun)
  The noun MAN AND WIFE has 1 sense:

1. two people who are married to each other

  Familiarity information: MAN AND WIFE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAN AND WIFE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Two people who are married to each other

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

man and wife; marriage; married couple

Context example:

a married couple without love

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)

 Context examples 

I did consider; and still my sense, such as it was, directed me only to the fact that we did not love each other as man and wife should: and therefore it inferred we ought not to marry.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

That little house is now furnished right through, as neat and complete as a doll's parlour; and but for Barkis's illness having taken this bad turn, poor fellow, they would have been man and wife—I dare say, by this time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me; and if I'm not to have my rum now I'm a poor old hulk on a lee shore, my blood'll be on you, Jim, and that doctor swab; and he ran on again for a while with curses.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)