Idiom
other woman
Meaning
A woman who is romantically involved with someone (usually a man) already in a committed relationship with another woman, especially a woman having an affair with a married man.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“She discovered that he had an other woman.”
“The marriage fell apart when she found out her husband had been seeing another woman for months.”
“The scandal intensified when the press identified the other woman, leading to a public confrontation that destroyed the couple's remaining reputation.”
Examples
simple
“She discovered that he had an other woman.”
contextual
“The marriage fell apart when she found out her husband had been seeing another woman for months.”
complex
“The scandal intensified when the press identified the other woman, leading to a public confrontation that destroyed the couple's remaining reputation.”
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