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Definition of Spouse

Spouse

A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife.

A married man, in distinct from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband.

To wed; to espouse.

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Bridegroom, Distinct, Engaged, Espouse, From, Husband, In, Joined, Man, Married, Or, Person, Spousess, To, Wed, Wedlock, Wife, Woman

Spouse Quotations

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
Omar Khayyam

And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
Barbara Bush

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
Barbara Bush

Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse.
Willie Aames

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin Spock

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.
Piers Anthony

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.
Olivia Wilde

My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot, that's a very human reaction, but you don't go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it's how you behave.
Mark Ruffalo

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.
Robert B. Parker

More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.
John Shadegg

If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.
Adrian Lyne

I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home.
Michael Zaslow

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
Ellen Goodman

Your allegiance is with your spouse; you cannot break that by showing allegiance to your ex-spouse.
Connie Sellecca

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.
Mary Schmich

We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents.
Hunter Tylo

It's a different experience to be with your kids when your spouse isn't around.
Jerry O'Connell

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.
Don Fraser

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.
Robert Bridges

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.
Cynthia Nelms

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Spouse Translations

spouse in Dutch is eega, echtgenote, man, echtgenoot
spouse in French is epoux
spouse in German is Gatte, Ehegatte
spouse in Latin is uxor
spouse in Portuguese is esposo
spouse in Swedish is make, maka

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