Noun
my brothers and sisters and their spouses
employees and their spouses are covered by the health plan
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Noun
In August 2023, Bell’s former spouse, Hall, was convicted and sentenced to 18 years in prison for the deaths of two former patients, although she had been suspected in the deaths of as many as nine.—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2025 There are cloud engineers, medical researchers, former Yang campaigners, corporate strategists, the spouse of a guy who founded a healthy cookie startup called Mmmly that Yang invested in before the company was sold at a loss.—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
The Selling Sunset star recently celebrated her 43rd birthday by renewing her vows to spouse G Flip in Australia, G Flip’s home country.—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for spouse
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Anglo-French espus (masculine) & espuse (feminine), from Latin sponsus betrothed man, groom & sponsa betrothed woman, bride, both from sponsus, past participle of spondēre to promise, betroth; akin to Greek spendein to pour a libation, Hittite šipant-
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