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country wives

country wives is the plural of country wife.

Meaning of country wife

Noun

country wife (plural country wives)

  1. (Canada, historical) A fur trader's First Nations or Métis common-law wife.

Questions about country wives

What is country wives the plural of?
Country wives is the plural of country wife.

Words near country wives in the dictionary

  1. country team
  2. country teams
  3. country wife
  4. country wine
  5. country wines
  6. country wives
  7. country-and-western
  8. country-blues
  9. country-damaged
  10. country-dance
  11. country-dances

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Adapted from Wiktionary: country wives (page history and authors); country wife (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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