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divorcee

divorcee

24 3.9
A woman whose marriage is over
  • noun
  • /dɪˈvɔrˌsi/
translation icon : divorciada
  • After years of marriage, she proudly identified herself as a divorcee and moved to a new city.
  • widows and divorcees

Could Camilla be be be queen as a divorcee?

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Examples

  • The trailer belongs to a divorcee named Barb, as do the two children, a boy and a girl.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • I'm a divorcee.

  • I am a divorcee with a child.

  • My mother was their queen, the first divorcee in the school system.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Your mother is trying to fix you up with some divorcee.

  • I met this beautiful thirty-something divorcee at a party 11 days ago.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • You know, we have a lot of divorcees in Phase IV.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • The fact that he had married a divorcee broke his widowed mother's heart, and she cut off contact with him.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • She's a divorcee.

  • And these were organizations that were for divorcees or widows and widowers, people who had kids and wanted to get together with other people who had kids.

Synonyms

ex-wife
vsdivorcee
1 2.5

A woman who used to be married to someone

is used for a woman after marriage ends rather than to name the partner
ex-spouse
vsdivorcee
1 3.4

A person who used to be your husband or wife

is used mainly for a woman rather than for someone of either sex
grass widow
vsdivorcee
  • Archaic
9.9

A woman whose husband is away for a long time, for example after divorce or separation

is used for a woman after marriage ends, not only in absent husband cases

Surface Forms

divorcee singular
divorcees plural

Morphology

divorcee = divorce (transparent) = divorce + ee

The noun is clearly formed from the verb 'divorce' plus the person-forming suffix '-ee', indicating a person who has been divorced.

Etymology

The word divorcee comes from the word divorce ('separation') plus the French ending -ée, which shows a woman who has been divorced. So a divorcee is a woman who has been legally 'separated' from her husband or partner.