marriage

Meaning

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

Synonyms

wedding

💒

matrimony

wedlock

nuptials

married

marriage ceremony

union

bridal

espousal

match

hymeneals

nuptial

wedding ceremony

marry

alliance

looking after

man and wife

marital

spousal

married couple

marrying

spousal relationship

mating

matrimonial

betrothal

feast

office

🏢

pairing

relative

relatives

revolution

splice

trade union

tribe

wife

👰‍♀️

conjugality

relatives by marriage

marriage tie

love knot

hymeneal

married state

marital bed

spousehood

spousals

lock

🔒

association

celebration

🎉

ceremony

clan

confederacy

Translations

mariage

💍

matrimonio

💍

matrimonio

Heirat

huwelijk

💍

Ehe

💍

Hochzeit

💒

boda

💒

noces

sposalizio

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmæɹɪdʒ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: mariage

In summary

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.

Sentences

She also has an older son from an earlier marriage .

He was a vocal opponent of same-sex marriage in Canada .

It is a Sharia-granted procedure to judicially rescind a marriage .