honest woman

1. 1.

   a wife who has married a man with whom she has been living for some time (especially if she is pregnant at the time)

   “he made an honest woman of her”

   Broaderwife

Questions about honest woman

What does honest woman mean?

honest woman means "a wife who has married a man with whom she has been living for some time (especially if she is pregnant at the time)".

Is honest woman a common word?

honest woman is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.