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5 old wives' tale
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6 old wives' tale
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7 old wives' tale
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8 midwife
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10 wife
plural - wives; noun(the woman to whom one is married: Come and meet my wife; He is looking for a wife.) femme- wife-battering -
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1 ( spouse) gen femme f ; Admin, Jur épouse f ; she was his second wife c'était sa deuxième femme ; he had three children by his first wife il a eu trois enfants de sa première femme ; she will make him a good wife elle fera une bonne épouse pour lui ; many wives would disagree beaucoup de femmes mariées ne seraient pas d'accord ; the baker's/farmer's/butcher's wife la boulangère/la fermière/la bouchère ; to take sb as one's wife sout, to take sb to wife‡ prendre qn pour femme† ; the wife ○ hum la régulière ○ hum ;2 ‡( woman) bonne femme f. -
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old [əʊld]1. adjective━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• old for his years ( = mature) mûr (pour son âge)b. (of specified age) how old are you? quel âge as-tu ?• you're old enough to know better! à ton âge tu devrais avoir plus de bon sens !• Martyn? we're old friends Martyn ? c'est un ami de longue date• just like old times! c'est comme au bon vieux temps !2. noun3. plural noun4. compounds► the Old Bill (inf!) noun━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━La cravate est l'élément distinctif principal de l'uniforme que portent les élèves des écoles britanniques, à tel point qu'elle en est venue à symboliser le réseau de relations dont continuent de bénéficier dans leur carrière les anciens élèves des écoles les plus prestigieuses. On dira ainsi « how did he get the job ? -- it was a case of the old school tie » (il a fait joué ses relations).━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━* * *[əʊld] 1.1) ( old people)the old — (+ v pl) les personnes fpl âgées
2)2.1) ( not young) vieux/vieille, âgéan old man — un vieil homme, un vieillard
2) ( of a particular age)a week old — [bread etc] vieux d'une semaine
I'm the oldest — c'est moi l'aîné/-e
3) ( not new) [object, song, tradition, family] vieux/vieille; [excuse] classique; [joke] rebattu4) (former, previous) [address, school, job, admirer, system] ancien/-ienne (before n)5) (colloq) ( as term of affection) vieux/vieillegood old British weather! — iron ce sacré (colloq) climat anglais!
6) (colloq) ( as intensifier)a right old mess — une sacrée pagaille (colloq)
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15 battered
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17 menfolk
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18 crisis centre
crisis centre GB, crisis center US n ( after disaster) cellule f de crise ; (for alcoholics, battered wives etc) association f d'entraide. -
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20 housewife
housewife n (pl - wives) ( not employed outside home) femme f au foyer ; ( with emphasis on domestic labour) ménagère f.
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