one’s better half

n. one’s wife, and occasionally, one’s husband. My better half disapproved of the movie.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Iyov	-	Hebrew
Decker	['dekə]
RikÁRd	-	Hungarian
Plato	PLAY-to (English)	Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Emma	EM-ə (English), EM-mah (Finnish), E-mah (German)	English, French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish, Dutch, German, An
Laraine	-	English