Marriage

Quick meaning: Marriage is a noun meaning The state of being married.

Meaning

The state of being married.

More Meanings

1. A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.
2. A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed.
3. (figuratively) A close union.
4. (figuratively) A joining of two parts.
5. (card games) A king and a queen, when held as a hand in some versions of poker or melded in pinochle.
6. (card games) In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value.
7. (prison slang) A homosexual relationship between male prisoners.

Example Sentences

You should enter marriage for love.

You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe.

But the food is real: a marriage of local ingredients and serious technique.

The account of the loss of the blessing of his father Isaac appears immediately after Esau's marriage to his Hittite wives.

Word Forms

• marriages
• mariage

Synonyms for marriage

Depending on context, synonyms include matrimony, wedding, wedlock, union.

Antonyms for marriage

Common opposites include divorce.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wedlock, matrimony, wedding, union, spousal, marital.

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