ex
/ɛks/ noun C2- A former partner or spouse; an ex-girlfriend, ex-boyfriend, ex-wife, or ex-husband. · My friend has an ex who now lives abroad.· Her ex is still sending her flowers, even though she has moved on.
Plural exes
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On the fly-leaf, in very faded ink, is written ‘Ex libris Guliolmi Whyte.’ I wonder who William Whyte was.
“Stuck-up old statuette of nothing doing!” commented the ex-Soap King.
For years I have endeavoured to break through the veil which shrouded it, and at last the time came when I seized my thread and followed it, until it led me, after a thousand cunning windings, to ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity.
Our months of partnership had not been so uneventful as he had stated, for I find, on looking over my notes, that this period includes the case of the papers of ex-President Murillo, and also the shocking affair of the Dutch steamship Friesland, which so nearly cost us both our lives.
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