third wife
Marriage number three
A third wife is the third woman a person has married, typically after two previous marriages ended in divorce or death.
The phrase often carries connotations of serial marriage or romantic instability: His third wife was twenty years younger than the first two.
In polygamous contexts, a third wife is one of multiple concurrent spouses rather than a sequential replacement.
- polygamyMultiple concurrent spouses
- remarriageWedding after divorce/widowhood
- starter marriageBrief first matrimony ending quickly
- serial monogamyOne exclusive partner after another
- divorceLegal end of matrimony
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