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sea-wife

sea-wife is the alternative form of seawife.

Meaning of seawife

Noun

seawife (plural seawives)

  1. Synonym of wrasse.
    Synonyms:
    wrasse
  2. (rare) The wife of a fisherman or sailor.
    • Moreover they are informed that the only Ward family living on the island is “Selkie” and his seawife, and “Selkie” was their great-great-grandfather, dead for a hundred years. / Eventually, after encounters with various people whose behaviour they cannot understand, they find “Selkie”, his seawife...1972, W[illiam] Towrie Cutt, Seven for the Sea, London: André Deutsch, →ISBN, front flap

Forms of sea-wife

pluralsea-wives

Questions about sea-wife

What is sea-wife the alternative form of?
Sea-wife is the alternative form of seawife.

Words near sea-wife in the dictionary

  1. sea-weeds
  2. sea-whip
  3. sea-whipcord
  4. sea-whipcords
  5. sea-whips
  6. sea-wife
  7. sea-willow
  8. sea-willows
  9. sea-wing
  10. sea-wings
  11. sea-wives

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sea-wife (page history and authors); seawife (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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