marriage meaning

Noun: marriage  marrij

1. The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
   "a long and happy marriage"
   - matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock 
2. Two people who are married to each other
   "his second marriage was happier than the first"
   - married couple, man and wife 
3. The act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony
   "their marriage was conducted in the chapel"
   - wedding, marriage ceremony 
4. A close and intimate union
   "the marriage of music and dance"; "a marriage of ideas"

Derived forms: marriages

See also: connubial, marry

Type of: family, family unit, marital status, rite, ritual, unification, union

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[Law]
n. 1. The relationship between husband and wife.
2. A ceremony, civil or religious, that creates the legal status of husband and wife and the legal obligations arising from that status (see MARRIAGE CEREMONY). All marriages must be registered by an authorized marriage registrar. The minimum age for marriage is 16 with parental consent (18 without), and capacity to marry in general is governed by the law of domicile of both parties before the marriage. Relationships within which marriage is prohibited are specified in the Marriage Act 1949, as amended by the Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986 (see PROHIBITED DEGREES OF RELATIONSHIPS). Parties to a marriage must be respectively male and female as determined at birth (sex-change operations have no legal effect), must not be already married to someone else (see BIGAMY; POLYGAMY), and must enter into the marriage freely. See also MARRIAGE BY CERTIFICATE.

[Medicine]
The social institution involving legal and/or religious sanction whereby men and women are joined together for the purpose of founding a family unit.

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1. that's part of my case against marriage.
2. she feels very insecure about her marriage.
3. he had cut me ever since my marriage.
4. free marriage has already predominated.
5. for some women marriage is a trap.