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spouseless

spouseless adjective: without a spouse; unmarried.

Adjective

spouseless (not comparable)

  1. Without a spouse; unmarried.
    • But the new majority materialized only because The Times chose to use survey data that counted, as spouseless women, teenagers 15 through 17 — almost 90 percent of whom were living with their parents.2007 February 11, Byron Calame, “Can a 15-Year-Old Be a ‘Woman Without a Spouse’?”, in New York Times

Origin of spouseless

From Middle English spouselees, spowseles; equivalent to spouse + -less.

Words formed from spouseless

Questions about spouseless

What does spouseless mean?
Spouseless means without a spouse; unmarried.
What part of speech is spouseless?
Spouseless is an adjective.

Words near spouseless in the dictionary

  1. spousebreach
  2. spoused
  3. spousedom
  4. spousehood
  5. spousehoods
  6. spouseless
  7. spouselessness
  8. spousely
  9. spouses
  10. spousess
  11. spousesses

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