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cowife

cowife is the alternative spelling of co-wife.

Meaning of co-wife

Noun

co-wife (plural co-wives)

  1. In a polygamous marriage, another wife of a woman’s husband.
    • If a co-wife had sought the lives of those three of thine.1892, Kipling & Balestier, Naulahka, page 247
    Synonyms:
    co-bride, fellow-wife, wife-in-law

Forms of cowife

pluralcowives

Questions about cowife

What is cowife the alternative spelling of?
Cowife is the alternative spelling of co-wife.

Words near cowife in the dictionary

  1. Cowichans
  2. cowie
  3. cowier
  4. cowies
  5. cowiest
  6. cowife
  7. Cowin
  8. cowing
  9. Cowings
  10. cowinner
  11. cowinners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cowife (page history and authors); co-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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