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marriage

[ mar-ij ]

noun

  1. (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage:

    Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times.

    1. Also called opposite-sex marriage. the form of this institution under which a man and a woman have established their decision to live as husband and wife by legal commitments, religious ceremonies, etc. traditional marriage ( def 2 ).
    2. this institution expanded to include two partners of the same gender, as in same-sex marriage gay marriage
  2. the state, condition, or relationship of being married; wedlock:

    They have a happy marriage.

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  3. the legal or religious ceremony that formalizes the decision of two people to live as a married couple, including the accompanying social festivities:

    to officiate at a marriage.

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  4. a relationship in which two people have pledged themselves to each other in the manner of a husband and wife, without legal sanction:

    trial marriage.

  5. any close or intimate association or union:

    the marriage of words and music in a hit song.

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  6. a formal agreement between two companies or enterprises to combine operations, resources, etc., for mutual benefit; merger.
  7. a blending or matching of different elements or components:

    The new lipstick is a beautiful marriage of fragrance and texture.

  8. Cards. a meld of the king and queen of a suit, as in pinochle. Compare royal marriage.
  9. a piece of antique furniture assembled from components of two or more authentic pieces.
  10. Obsolete. the formal declaration or contract by which act a man and a woman join in wedlock.


marriage

/ 藞尘忙谤瑟诲萧 /

noun

  1. the state or relationship of living together in a legal partnership
    1. the legal union or contract made by two people to live together
    2. ( as modifier )

      marriage certificate

      marriage licence

  2. the religious or legal ceremony formalizing this union; wedding
  3. a close or intimate union, relationship, etc

    a marriage of ideas

  4. (in certain card 亚洲网紅露点, such as bezique, pinochle) the king and queen of the same suit
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 苍辞苍路尘补谤顎价颈补驳别 noun
  • 辫辞蝉迟路尘补谤顎价颈补驳别 noun adjective
  • 辫谤别路尘补谤顎价颈补驳别 noun
  • 辫谤辞路尘补谤顎价颈补驳别 adjective
  • 谤别路尘补谤顎价颈补驳别 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of marriage1

First recorded in 1250鈥1300; Middle English mariage, from Old French, equivalent to mari(er) 鈥渢o wed鈥 + -age noun suffix; marry 1none, -age none
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of marriage1

C13: from Old French; see marry 1, -age
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Synonym Study

Marriage, wedding, nuptials are terms for the ceremony uniting couples in wedlock. Marriage is the simple and usual term, without implications as to circumstances and without emotional connotations: to announce the marriage of a daughter. Wedding has rather strong emotional, even sentimental, connotations, and suggests the accompanying festivities, whether elaborate or simple: a beautiful wedding; a reception after the wedding. Nuptials is a formal and lofty word applied to the ceremony and attendant social events; it does not have emotional connotations but strongly implies surroundings characteristic of wealth, rank, pomp, and grandeur: royal nuptials. It appears frequently on newspaper society pages chiefly as a result of the attempt to avoid continual repetition of marriage and wedding.
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The former central banker responded with a firm but measured tone after the president proposed a "wonderful marriage" of incorporating Canada into the US.

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Although marriage to more than one individual at a time is not legally recognized in the United States, Kody has called his relationships with the women 鈥渟piritual unions.鈥

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鈥淚鈥檓 struggling with trusting people again because my heart has been broken,鈥 de Lesseps says, recalling her two marriages.

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In the days leading up to the judge鈥檚 decision, Corby attends AA meetings, counseling sessions and frantically clings to his fraying marriage.

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With his marriage to Evelyn, Mr Molala has informally adopted her children, bringing the total number of his offspring to 13.

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