Synonyms for man and wife
man and wife

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1. marriage, married couple, man and wifenoun

   two people who are married to each other

   "his second marriage was happier than the first"; "a married couple without love"

   Synonyms:
   married couple, marriage ceremony, wedlock, wedding, marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, union

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1. • Family

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1. man and wife

   Read the full text of the Man And Wife poem by Robert Lowell on the Poetry.com website.

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1. Samuel Pepys:

   Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

2. Herman Melville:

   How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg -- a cozy, loving pair.

3. unknown:

   There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye-to-eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

4. Homer:

   There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

5. John Gay:

   Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?