side-wife

短语

词形变化

side-wives 复数

别名

side wife

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A woman who (among others) has the potential to become one's wife, or who is fulfilling the role of one's wife in addition to one's actual wife; a concubine

    For one who has no husband, as well as for one who acts as a side-wife for a person, who has formed a household, or who lives elsewhere and is not enumerated together [with a husband or children on a population register], […]

词源

From side + wife. Compare Dutch bijwijf (“concubine”).

来源：wiktionary