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Marriage
Definitions
- 1 A surname
- 1 The state of being married. countable, uncountable
"You should enter marriage for love."
- 2 the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony wordnet
- 3 A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities. countable, uncountable
"By his marriage to his two wives, Tapuwae quietly strengthened all of the pas of the Wairoa district, as many of them came under his control through these unions."
- 4 two people who are married to each other wordnet
- 5 A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.; The union of only two people, to the exclusion of all others. countable, sometimes, specifically, uncountable
"My grandparents' marriage lasted for forty years."
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- 6 the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce) wordnet
- 7 A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.; The union of two people of opposite sex, to the exclusion of all others. countable, often, specifically, uncountable
- 8 a close and intimate union wordnet
- 9 A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed. countable, uncountable
"You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe."
- 10 A close union. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"And this marriage of poetry and history remained a solid relationship throughout the classical period."
- 11 A joining of two parts. countable, figuratively, uncountable
- 12 A king and a queen, when held as a hand in some versions of poker or melded in pinochle. countable, uncountable
- 13 In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value. countable, uncountable
- 14 A homosexual relationship between male prisoners. countable, slang, uncountable
Etymology
From Middle English mariage, from Old French mariage, from marier (“to marry”), from Latin marītō (“marry”, verb, literally “give in marriage”), from marītus (“lover”, “nuptial”), from mas (“male, masculine, of the male sex”). Equivalent to marry + -age. Doublet of maritage. Displaced native Old English sinsċipe.
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