Wife vs Relict - What's the difference?
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A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
* (The Fisherman and His Wife)
* , chapter=10
, title= The female of a pair of mated animals.
(formal) Something that, or someone who, survives or remains or is left over after the loss of others; a relic.
# (archaic) The surviving member of a married couple after one or the other has died; a widow or widower.
#* 1801 , in the Reports of cases decided in the High court of Chancery of Maryland , volume 3, page 268:
#* 1973 , Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise :
# (biology, ecology) A species, organism or ecosystem which has survived from a previous age: one which was once widespread but which is now found only in a few areas.
#* 2010', M. Zimmerman et al., in '''''Relict Species: Phylogeography and Conservation Biology (edited by Jan Christian Habel, Thorsten Assmann), page 324:
# (geology) A structure or other feature which has survived from a previous age.
#* 2011 , Mark Keiter, Chris Ballhaus, Frank Tomaschek, A New Geological Map of the Island of Syros (Aegean Sea, Greece) , page 16:
# (linguistics) A survival of an archaic word, language or other form.
Surviving, remaining.
That is a ; pertaining to a relict.
* 1992 , , page 97:
As nouns the difference between wife and relict
is that wife is a married woman, especially in relation to her spouse while relict is (formal) something that, or someone who, survives or remains or is left over after the loss of others; a relic.As an adjective relict is
surviving, remaining.wife
English
Noun
(wives)- My wife and I have decided to have a baby.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
Usage notes
Although not common, wife'' can be used with ''the to indicate one's own wife. For instance, "I'd like to go, but the wife wants me home." More commonly, "my wife".Synonyms
* (married woman) better half, life partner, little woman (slang), partner, significant other, spouse * See alsoAntonyms
* (married woman) husband, were (obsolete)See also
* uxorialDerived terms
(Terms derived from the noun "wife") * (From woman) alewife * (partner) co-wife * (partner) ex-wife * (woman) fishwife * (woman) goodwife * (partner) housewife * (partner) huswife * (partner) man and wife/I now declare you man and wife * (woman) midwife * (woman) old wife/old-wife/oldwife * (woman) pudding-wife * seawife * sister-wife * spaewife * (partner) trophy wife * (partner) wife-beater * (woman/partner) wifehood * (partner) wifeless * (woman) wifely * (partner) wifey (wife)See also
* (wikipedia "wife")References
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English
(wikipedia relict)Noun
(en noun)- Upon which the Chancellor, by way of note said, 'it is suggested, that there is a relict of the deceased, married to another man, who has joined her in a power of attorney to authorize the sale of her interest, '
- But I am not the penniless nonentity I was when we first met; I can offer an honorable if not a brilliant marriage; and at the very lowest I can provide my wife – my widow, my relict – with a decent competence , an assured future.
- The species may be a relict of former stages of historical vegetation and landscape development resulting from past climate changes (glacial and post- glacial periods).
- Dark rims around the pillows are caused by glaucophane enrichment, possibly a relict of a primary interaction between basalt and seawater, causing Na- enrichment in the original glass crust of the pillows.
- A small number of linguists believe that Cimbrian is not an Austro-Bavarian dialect but a relict of Lombardic.
Adjective
(-)- In the lakes and in the streams were species of fish not known elsewhere on earth and birds and lizards and other forms of life as well all long relict here for the desert stretched away on every side.