English Dictionary

wife-in-law

名詞

A wife in law only, such as one who has abandoned her husband / A wife who provides domestic or social support, but not love or affection

日本語の意味

法律上の妻、つまり結婚という形式上は妻だが、実際には夫から見捨てられた女性を指す場合がある。 / 愛情や情熱を伴わず、家庭や社会的な支援を提供する立場としての妻を意味する場合がある。

The wife-in-law moved out last year and has lived apart from her husband ever since, acting as a wife in name only.

彼女は昨年家を出て以来夫と別居しており、事実上名ばかりの妻になっています。

意味（1）

A wife in law only, such as one who has abandoned her husband

意味（2）

A wife who provides domestic or social support, but not love or affection

意味（3）

Another wife of one's husband. Typically used in cases of divorce and subsequent remarriage for one's husband's ex-wife, but sometimes used in polygamy for a co-wife.

Instead she arranges, offhand, a nice little farewell dinner for her husband that was and the lady, Flora, who is to be her successor three months hence. […] Flora is generously constrained to leave the sometime-husband and wife to talk the matter over. Are we not wives-in-law? says Madame. And the upshot is that although Flora interrupts them by phone from her flat below several times until the receiver is left off, Madame easily wins back her husband. Indeed, so complete is their absorption that they have forgotten completely the trifling circumstance that they are no longer man and wife.

wives-in-law （ plural ）