marriage
nounEtymology
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.
Definitions
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…
A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.
- By his marriage to his two wives, Tapuwae quietly strengthened all of the pas of the Wairoa district, as many of them came under his control through these unions.
- One layman in Buddha's time decided to embrace celibacy and relinquished his marriage vows to his four wives. When he asked them what they wanted in terms of a settlement, one said, […]
- The account of the loss of the blessing of his father Isaac appears immediately after Esau's marriage to his Hittite wives.
A wedding
A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed.
- You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe.
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A close union.
- And this marriage of poetry and history remained a solid relationship throughout the classical period.
- Above all, we will no longer have to feel qualms about the marriage of art and money. We will no longer have to wonder if it is possible to separate the esthetic value of an art work from its commercial value.
- But the food is real: a marriage of local ingredients and serious technique.
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…
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.
A surname
The neighborhood
- synonymmatrimony
- synonymwedding
- synonymcivil union
- antonymdivorce
- neighbormarry
- neighboradelphogamy
- neighborbigamy
- neighborcohabitation
- neighbordivorce
- neighborgroup marriage
- neighbormatrimony
- neighbormonogamy
- neighborone flesh
- neighborpolyandry
- neighborpolygamy
- neighborpolygyny
Derived
antimarriage, arranged marriage, ask for someone's hand in marriage, banns of marriage, bisexual marriage, Boston marriage, brokeback marriage, celestial marriage, celestial plural marriage, ceremonial marriage, child marriage, circle marriage, civil marriage, common-law marriage, commuter marriage, companionate marriage, complex marriage, conjoint marriage, consanguine marriage, consummate marriage, cross-cousin marriage, customary marriage, cybermarriage, earthly marriage, equal marriage, eternal marriage, extramarriage, faggot marriage, fag marriage, Fleet marriage, frank-marriage, gay marriage, ghost marriage, group marriage, heavenly marriage, hedge marriage, hetero marriage, hetero-marriage, heteromarriage, homomarriage · +93 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at marriage. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at marriage. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at marriage
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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