Usually means: Female fish, member of herring.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. alewife: Merriam-Webster
  2. alewife: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alewife, alewife: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alewife: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alewife: Vocabulary.com
  6. Alewife, alewife: Wordnik
  7. alewife: Wiktionary
  8. alewife: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. alewife: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. alewife: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Alewife, alewife: Dictionary.com
  12. Alewife (MBTA station), Alewife (fish), Alewife (multiprocessor), Alewife (trade), Alewife: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Alewife: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. alewife: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. alewife: Rhymezone
  16. Alewife: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. alewife: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. alewife: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. alewife: FreeDictionary.org
  20. alewife: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. alewife: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. alewife: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Alewife (fish), alewife: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. ALEWIFE, ALEWIFE, ALEWIFE: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

(Note: See alewifes as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (alewife)

▸ noun:  (archaic) A woman who keeps an alehouse.
▸ noun:  A migrating North American fish, Alosa pseudoharengus.
▸ noun:  Any of several species similar in appearance.

Similar:
alosa pseudoharengus, pomolobus pseudoharengus, ale-draper, abbess, brewster, wench, slack Alice, lady abbess, alchie, abbot, more...

Opposite:
brewer, beer maker, beer brewer

Phrases:
Alewife station, more...

Adjectives:
fat, adult, anadromous, puir, larval, poor, medieval, juvenile, abundant, young, little

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Similar:
alosa pseudoharengus, pomolobus pseudoharengus, ale-draper, abbess, brewster, wench, slack Alice, lady abbess, alchie, abbot, more...

Opposite:
brewer, beer maker, beer brewer

Phrases:
Alewife station, more...

Adjectives:
fat, adult, anadromous, puir, larval, poor, medieval, juvenile, abundant, young, little

Colors:
    silver,     olive,     green,     blue,     gray, more...



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