as husband and wife
Definition
› in the same way as two people who are married: Although never married, they lived together as husband and wife for 50 years.Marriage, cohabitation and other relationships
(Definition of as husband and wife from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- adulteress noun
- be an item idiom
- be shacked up idiom
- civil partnership noun
- cohabit verb
- hear wedding bells idiom
- hitched adjective
- intermarriage noun
- involvement noun
- kept adjective
- marriage guidance noun
- marriage noun (TWO PEOPLE)
- marriageable adjective
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