marriage.
The state of being married.
Meaning & usage
The state of being married.
You should enter marriage for love.
A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.
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.
My grandparents' marriage lasted for forty years.
Pat and Leslie's marriage to each other lasted forty years.
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.
A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed.
You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe.
A close union.
A joining of two parts.
A king and a queen, when held as a hand in some versions of poker or melded in pinochle.
In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value.
A homosexual relationship between male prisoners.
Where this word comes from
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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