oldwife

Other forms of oldwife

plural

oldwives

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about oldwife

What does oldwife mean?

oldwife means "tropical Atlantic fish". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oldwife?

oldwife has 2 syllables: ol-dwife. The stress falls on "ol".

What is another word for oldwife?

Close synonyms include queen triggerfish, Bessy cerca, oldwench, Balistes vetula, old squaw. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is oldwife a common word?

oldwife is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.