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surviving spouses

surviving spouses is the plural of surviving spouse.

Meaning of surviving spouse

Noun

surviving spouse (plural surviving spouses)

  1. A spouse that outlives the person to whom they are married, thereby obtaining legal rights with respect to the property of the deceased spouse.
  2. (US) An unmarried taxpayer whose spouse has been deceased for less than two taxable years, and who provides a home for one or more dependents of the deceased.

Questions about surviving spouses

What is surviving spouses the plural of?
Surviving spouses is the plural of surviving spouse.

Words near surviving spouses in the dictionary

  1. survivest
  2. surviveth
  3. survivin
  4. surviving
  5. surviving spouse
  6. surviving spouses
  7. survivor
  8. survivor bias
  9. survivor biases
  10. survivor guilt
  11. survivor syndrome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: surviving spouses (page history and authors); surviving spouse (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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