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Definition of "wives" []

  • Plural of wife. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "wives" in a sentence
  • "Only by appreciating the distinction made by Plato can we understand why he over and over speaks of the wives of guardians, but never of their husbands, of guardians as "the best of citizens" and "their wives… the best of women," and of how the legislators are to select the women and given them to the guardians."
  • "Likewise are all the books of "advice to young wives and husbands," especially those addressed to young _wives_."
  • "They can obtain wives from the idolators; but the Mahommedans would rather give their daughters to the latter, as being real Adeeghas, than to these Christians, who are found chiefly in the interior."