良りょう妻さい

noun

good wife

Refers to a wife regarded as good, capable, devoted, or admirable. The word can sound somewhat traditional because it evaluates a woman in the social role of wife, especially in set expressions such as 良妻賢母.

• 彼かれは友ゆう人じんたちに良りょう妻さいを持もって幸しあわせだと言いわれた。

  His friends told him he was lucky to have a good wife.

• 昔むかしは、女じょ性せいに良りょう妻さいであることを求もとめる考かんがえ方かたが強つよかった。

  In the past, there was a strong expectation that women should be good wives.