The princess was betrothed to a prince who lived a great way off.
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Betrothed
//bɪˈtɹəʊðd//
Synonyms for "betrothed" (26 found)
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43 translations across 19 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- خطب noun (fiancé or fiancée)
- مَخْطُوب noun (fiancé or fiancée)
- مَخْطُوبَة noun (fiancé or fiancée)
Catalan
2 entries- promesa noun (fiancé or fiancée)
- promès noun (fiancé or fiancée)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 訂婚了 /订婚了 noun (fiancé or fiancée)
Czech
1 entries- zasnoubený noun (fiancé or fiancée)
Dutch
1 entries- verloofd noun (fiancé or fiancée)
Esperanto
2 entries- fianĉino noun (fiancé or fiancée)
- fianĉo noun (fiancé or fiancée)
Finnish
1 entries- kihlattu noun (fiancé or fiancée)
French
2 entries- fiancé noun (fiancé or fiancée)
- fiancée noun (fiancé or fiancée)
German
2 entries- Verlobte noun (fiancé or fiancée)
- Verlobter noun (fiancé or fiancée)
Irish
3 entries- dálta verb (past of betroth)
- geallta verb (past of betroth)
- luaite verb (past of betroth)
Italian
2 entries- fidanzata noun (fiancé or fiancée)
- fidanzato noun (fiancé or fiancée)
Japanese
1 entries- 婚約している noun (fiancé or fiancée)
Malagasy
1 entries- voafofo noun (fiancé or fiancée)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- forlovede noun (fiancé or fiancée)
- forlovet verb (past of betroth)
- trolovet verb (past of betroth)
Polish
4 entries- narzeczona noun (fiancé or fiancée)
- narzeczony noun (fiancé or fiancée)
- oblubienica noun (fiancé or fiancée)
- oblubieniec noun (fiancé or fiancée)
Portuguese
1 entries- comprometido noun (fiancé or fiancée)
Russian
4 entries- обручённая noun (fiancé or fiancée)
- обручённый noun (fiancé or fiancée)
- помо́лвленная noun (fiancé or fiancée)
- помо́лвленный noun (fiancé or fiancée)
Spanish
3 entries- comprometida noun (fiancé or fiancée)
- comprometido noun (fiancé or fiancée)
- desposado verb (past of betroth)
Swedish
4 entries- fästman noun (fiancé or fiancée)
- fästmö noun (fiancé or fiancée)
- förlovad noun (fiancé or fiancée)
- trolovad noun (fiancé or fiancée)
Sample sentences
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When the princess grew up she was betrothed to a prince who lived at a great distance.
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But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
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Alessandro Manzoni’s 1840 novel "The Betrothed" ("I Promessi Sposi") is set against the backdrop of a plague that struck the villages around Milan and then advanced into the city itself in 1630.
Source: tatoeba (8609813)
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