Connubiate

Quick meaning: Connubiate is a verb meaning (rare, slang) To live together as man and wife; to marry; (loosely), to have relations.

Meaning

(rare, slang) To live together as man and wife; to marry; (loosely), to have relations.

Example Sentences

I looked at her and hoped we might connubiate but she ignored me.

So much for the desire of these interesting creatures to—we don't say marry, because the word is not genteel, and is rather discountenanced at the college—but to connubiate.

Let it be Rome, Milan, Naples, Florence, Turin, Venice, or Switzerland, and ‘egad!’ (as Bayes saith,) I will connubiate and join you; and we will write a new ‘Inferno’ in our Paradise.

Word Forms

• connubiates
• connubiating
• connubiated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include couple, cohabit, conjoin, accouple, marry, connex.

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