domestic partner

Questions about domestic partner

What is another word for domestic partner?

It depends which domestic partner you mean. In the sense “a person (not necessarily a spouse) with whom you cohabit and share a long-term sexual relationship”, the synonyms are significant other, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalent. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of domestic partner?

WordNet records no antonym for domestic partner. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for domestic partner come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of domestic partner

• Full entry for domestic partnerAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for domestic partnerWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.