Usually means: Married woman, often of yore.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word Goodwife:

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  1. goodwife: Merriam-Webster
  2. goodwife: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. goodwife: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. goodwife: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Goodwife, goodwife: Wordnik
  6. Goodwife, goodwife: Wiktionary
  7. goodwife: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. goodwife: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Goodwife: Dictionary.com
  10. Goodwife: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Goodwife: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. goodwife: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Goodwife: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. goodwife: FreeDictionary.org
  15. goodwife: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. GOODWIFE, GOODWIFE, GOODWIFE: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Goodwife)

▸ noun:  (obsolete) A female head of a household.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A title of respect for a woman.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A title of respect for a woman

Similar:
goody, wifelet, little woman, missus, wifelkin, wifeling, wifie, woman, Frau, old woman, more...

Opposite:
goodman, husband, spouse, partner

Adjectives:
old, simple, plain, notable, aged, rusty, puritan, many, free, colonial, last

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Similar:
goody, wifelet, little woman, missus, wifelkin, wifeling, wifie, woman, Frau, old woman, more...

Opposite:
goodman, husband, spouse, partner

Adjectives:
old, simple, plain, notable, aged, rusty, puritan, many, free, colonial, last



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