ex-wife

See also: exwife

English

Alternative forms

• exwife

Etymology

From ex- +‎ wife.

Pronunciation

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Noun

ex-wife (plural ex-wives)

1. A former wife (from a previous marriage after a divorce).
   • 2001, Steven Suskin, Broadway Yearbook, 1999-2000:

     Pascal's estate was contentiously split between his ex-wife and his nonwife, with artistic decisions ultimately empowered to a banker.

   • 2020, Scott Wright, Verity Trott, Callum Jones, “‘The pussy ain’t worth it, bro’: assessing the discourse and structure of MGTOW”, in Information, Communication & Society, volume 23:

     Personal stories about unhappy relationships, cheating partners and manipulative ex-wives were often described in detail, usually to illustrate AWALT and serve as the basis for the MGTOW lifestyle.

Translations

a former wife

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 前妻 (zh) (qiánqī)

• Czech: exmanželka (cs) f
• Danish: ekskone c
• Esperanto: eksedzino
• Finnish: entinen vaimo
• French: ex-femme (fr) f
• Georgian: ყოფილი ცოლი (q̇opili coli)
• German: Ex-Frau f, Exfrau (de) f
• Hungarian: exfeleség
• Japanese: 前妻 (ja) (ぜんさい, zensai), 元妻 (もとつま, mototsuma)
• Korean: 전처 (ko) (jeoncheo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ekskone m or f

  Nynorsk: ekskone f

• Portuguese: ex-mulher f, ex-esposa f
• Romanian: fostă soție f
• Russian: бы́вшая жена́ f (bývšaja žená)
• Spanish: exesposa f, exmujer f
• Swedish: exfru (sv) c
• Telugu: మాజీ-భార్య f (mājī-bhārya)
• Turkish: eski karı

See also

• ex-husband
• ex-fiancé
• ex-fiancée
• ex-father-in-law
• ex-mother-in-law
• ex-sister-in-law
• ex-brother-in-law
• ex-daughter-in-law
• ex-son-in-law
• ex-grandfather-in-law
• ex-grandmother-in-law
• ex-granddaughter-in-law
• ex-grandson-in-law

References

• “ex-wife”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.