Spouse vs. Espouse

Spousenoun

A person in a marriage or marital relationship.

Spouseverb

(dated) To wed; to espouse.

Spousenoun

A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife.

Spousenoun

A married man, in distinction from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband.

Spouseverb

To wed; to espouse.

Spousenoun

a person's partner in marriage

Spousenoun

a husband or wife, considered in relation to their partner.

Spouse

A spouse is a significant other in a marriage, civil union, or common-law marriage. The term is gender neutral, whereas a male spouse is a husband and a female spouse is a wife.

Espouseverb

(transitive) To become/get married to.

Espouseverb

(transitive) To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).

Espouseverb

To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.

Espouseverb

To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry.

Espouseverb

To take to one's self with a view to maintain; to make one's own; to take up the cause of; to adopt; to embrace.

Espouseverb

choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans;

Espouseverb

take in marriage

Espouseverb

take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own;

Espouseverb

adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life)

Espouseverb

marry

Espouseverb

(of a woman) be engaged to (a particular man)