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MARRIAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony
Example:
their marriage was conducted in the chapel
Synonyms:
marriage; marriage ceremony; wedding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("marriage" is a kind of...):
rite; ritual (any customary observance or practice)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "marriage"):
bridal; espousal (archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast)
civil marriage (a marriage performed by a government official rather than by a clergyman)
love match (a marriage for love's sake; not an arranged marriage)
remarriage (the act of marrying again)
Derivation:
marry (take in marriage)
marry (perform a marriage ceremony)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Two people who are married to each other
Example:
a married couple without love
Synonyms:
man and wife; marriage; married couple
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("marriage" is a kind of...):
family; family unit (primary social group; parents and children)
Meronyms (members of "marriage"):
better half; married person; mate; partner; spouse (a person's partner in marriage)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "marriage"):
mixed marriage (marriage of two people from different races or different religions or different cultures)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
Example:
God bless this union
Synonyms:
marriage; matrimony; spousal relationship; union; wedlock
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("marriage" is a kind of...):
marital status (the condition of being married or unmarried)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "marriage"):
sigeh (a Shiite tradition of temporary marriage permitted in Iran that allows a couple to specify the terms of their relationship; can last from a few minutes to 99 years)
polygamy (the condition or practice of having more than one spouse at a time)
cuckoldom (the state of a husband whose wife has committed adultery)
open marriage (a marriage in which each partner is free to enter into extraneous sexual relationships without guilt or jealousy from the other)
monogamousness; monogamy (the practice or state of having only one spouse at a time)
monandry (the state of having only one husband at a time)
misalliance (an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage))
marriage of convenience (a marriage for expediency rather than love)
exogamy; intermarriage (marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law)
endogamy; inmarriage; intermarriage (marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law)
common-law marriage (a marriage relationship created by agreement and cohabitation rather than by ceremony)
bigamy (the state of having two spouses at the same time)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A close and intimate union
Example:
a marriage of ideas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("marriage" is a kind of...):
unification; union (the state of being joined or united or linked)
Context examples:
The day came that had been fixed for the marriage.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Marriage contract has been declared null and to not have existed.
(Annulled, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Marriage contract has been declared dissolved and inactive.
(Divorced, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Soon after my arrival my father spoke of my immediate marriage with Elizabeth.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
His coming marriage gives a motive for the crime.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You are free of my box, as being a relative by marriage.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Family members related by secondary marriage or other legal arrangement.
(Legal Relative, NCI Thesaurus)
No marriage contract has ever been entered.
(Never Married, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
I offered the lady marriage, but she refused it on the grounds that such a match might mar my career.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He lay in dull despair, while she watched him searchingly, pondering again upon unsummoned and wayward thoughts of marriage.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
