spouseless

adj

spouseless

adj

Etymology From Middle English spouselees, spowseles; equivalent to spouse + -less.

1

Without a spouse; unmarried.

  • 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.2007 February 11, Byron Calame, “Can a 15-Year-Old Be a ‘Woman Without a Spouse’?”, in New York Times:
Derived terms
spouselessness

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