English Explanatory Dictionary

side-wife

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A woman who (among others) has the potential to become one's wife, or who is fulfilling the role of one's wife in addition to one's actual wife; a concubine

Word forms

side-wife side-wives side wife sidewife

Etymology

From side + wife. Compare Dutch bijwijf (“concubine”).

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