From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhusband and wifehusband and wifeMARRYa man and woman who are married to each other → husband
Examples from the Corpus
husband and wife• The Plot A husband and wife longed for a child, and after many years the wife became pregnant.• A husband and wife partnership ran a chemist's shop.• Both husband and wife are undecided and somewhat ambivalent about having a child, or buying a house.• If husband and wife are entertaining, then invite another couple.• The distribution in the next generation depends on the correlation between the wealth of husbands and wives.• It's seems that their marriage is a lost cause in which possess the husband and wife not real affection for one another.• The husband and wife, reaching the woods, separated in search of game.• Now we had to get the document that would officially make us husband and wife. 