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Webster 1913 Edition


Spouseless

Spouse′less

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Adj.
Destitute of a spouse; unmarried.

Webster 1828 Edition


Spouseless

SPOUSELESS

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Adj.
Destitute of a husband or of a wife; as a spouseless king or queen.

Definition 2024


spouseless

spouseless

English

Adjective

spouseless (not comparable)

  1. Without a spouse; unmarried.
    • 2007 February 11, Byron Calame, “Can a 15-Year-Old Be a ‘Woman Without a Spouse’?”, in New York Times:
      But the new majority materialized only because The Times chose to use survey data that counted, as spouseless women, teenagers 15 through 17 — almost 90 percent of whom were living with their parents.