trophy wife
A wife, usually young and attractive, regarded as a status symbol for her husband,…A wife, usually young and attractive, regarded as a status symbol for her husband, usually older and affluent.
Meaning
1 senses(derogatory, idiomatic, informal)A wife, usually young and attractive, regarded as a status symbol for her husband, usually older and affluent.
Vorzeigefrau, Trophäenfrau
трофейная женаtrofejnaja žena
a wife who is an attractive young woman; seldom the first wife of an affluent older man
Examples
2 sentencesMary is a trophy wife.
ruМэри - статусная жена. — Karok
Mary is the trophy wife of Tom Jackson.
Translations
3 languagesOrigin
Popularized by Julie Connelly in a Fortune magazine cover story in 1989, by analogy with aPopularized by Julie Connelly in a Fortune magazine cover story in 1989, by analogy with a real estate trophy building.
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Forms
plural: trophy wives| Singular | trophy wife |
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See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.