One engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife. We say of a man, that he is the spouse of such a woman; or of a woman, she is the spouse of such a man.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife.
2. A married man, in distinct from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband.
Destitute of a husband or of a wife; as a spouseless king or queen.
Destitute of a spouse; unmarried.
Accompaniment Roget’s Thesaurus §88
N. accompaniment, adjunct, context, appendage, appurtenance, coexistence, concomitance, company, association, companionship, partnership, copartnership, coefficiency, concomitant, accessory, coefficient, companion, buddy, attendant, fellow, associate, friend, colleague, consort, spouse, mate, partner, co- partner, satellite, hanger on, fellow-traveller, shadow, escort, cortege, attribute
V. accompany, coexist, attend, hang on, wait on, go hand in hand with, synchronize, bear company, keep company, row in the same boat, bring in its train, associate with, couple with
Adj. accompanying, concomitant, fellow, twin, joint, associated with, coupled with, accessory, attendant, obbligato
Adv. with, withal, together with, along with, in company with, hand in hand, side by side, cheek by jowl, cheek by jole, arm in arm, therewith, herewith, and, together, in a body, collectively
Phr. noscitur a sociis, virtutis fortuna comes
Marriage Roget’s Thesaurus §903
N. marriage, matrimony, wedlock, union, intermarriage, miscegenation, the bonds of marriage, vinculum matrimonii, nuptial tie, married state, coverture, bed, cohabitation, match, betrothment, wedding, nuptials, hymen, bridal, espousals, spousals, leading to the altar, nuptial benediction, epithalamium, sealing, torch of hymen, temple of hymen, hymeneal altar, honeymoon, bridesmaid, bridesman, best man, bride, bridegroom, married man, married woman, married couple, neogamist, benedict, partner, spouse, mate, yokemate, husband, man, consort, baron, old man, good man, wife of one's bosom, helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare, old woman, old lady, good wife, goodwife, feme, feme coverte, squaw, lady, matron, matronage, matronhood, man and wife, wedded pair, darby and joan, spiritual wife, monogamy, bigamy, digamy, deuterogamy, trigamy, polygamy, mormonism, levirate, spiritual wifery, spiritual wifeism, polyandrism, turk, bluebeard, unlawful marriage, left-handed marriage, morganatic marriage, ill- assorted marriage, mesalliance, mariage de convenance, marriage broker, matrimonial agency, matrimonial agent, matrimonial bureau, matchmaker, schatchen
V. marry, wive, take to oneself a wife, be married, be spliced, go off, pair off, wed, espouse, get hitched, lead to the hymeneal altar, take "for better for worse", give one's hand to, bestow one's hand upon, marry, join, handfast, couple, tie the nuptial knot, give away, give away in marriage, seal, ally, affiance, betroth, publish the banns, bid the banns, be asked in church
Adj. married, one, one bone and one flesh, marriageable, nubile, engaged, betrothed, affianced, matrimonial, marital, conjugal, connubial, wedded, nuptial, hymeneal, spousal, bridal
Phr. the gray mare the better horse, "a world-without-end bargain", "marriages are made in heaven", "render me worthy of this noble wife", si qua voles apte nubere nube pari
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9 KJV and 0 BSB verses contain “Spouse”
A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.