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Plural of spouse

regular plural

The plural of spouse is spouses.

Forms of spouse

Singularspouse /spaʊ̯s/
Pluralspouses /ˈspaʊ.sɪz/
Countablecountable

Spouses in a sentence

  • People should treat their spouses with respect.
  • Benefits are provided to unremarried surviving spouses of military personnel who died while on active duty.From the entry unremarried
  • A bigamist has two spouses at one time.From the entry at one time
  • Spouses should make a great pair.From the entry pair
  • The religious divergences between the two spouses always created the dissentism.2021 October 31, Khalid Hussain Mir, “Abdul Rahman Bulbul Shah: The first preacher of Islam in Kashmir”, in Rising Kashmir, archived from…. From the entry dissentism

Meaning of spouse

  1. noun A person in a marriage or marital relationship.
  2. verb To wed; to espouse.

Full definition of spouse

Questions about the plural of spouse

What is the plural of spouse?
The plural of spouse is spouses.
Is spouse countable?
Spouse is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spouse (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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