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    MARRIED

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A person who is marriedplay

    Example:

    we invited several young marrieds

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("married" is a kind of...):

    individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

    Derivation:

    marry (take in marriage)

     II. (adjective) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Joined in matrimonyplay

    Example:

    a married couple

    Classified under:

    Adjectives

    Similar:

    joined; united (of or relating to two people who are married to each other)

    mated (of or relating to a marriage partner)

    ringed (wearing a wedding ring; lawfully married)

    wed; wedded (having been taken in marriage)

    Also:

    mated (mated sexually)

    Antonym:

    unmarried (not married or related to the unmarried state)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Of or relating to the state of marriageplay

    Example:

    married bliss

    Synonyms:

    marital; married; matrimonial

    Classified under:

    Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

    Pertainym:

    marriage (the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce))

     III. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Past simple / past participle of the verb marry

    Credits

     Context examples: 

    “He has run away with his father’s woman-cook, and actually married her.”

    (Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

    He is a man of forty, married, with five children.

    (His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

    A courtesy title prefixed to the name of a married woman.

    (Mrs, NCI Thesaurus)

    A courtesy title used before the name of a woman without making a distinction between married and unmarried status.

    (Ms, NCI Thesaurus)

    They had not been long married, and their eldest child was but just born.

    (Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

    He said, ‘Let us get her married first and after a week or two she may see things a bit different.’

    (The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

    Sarah was thirty-three, and Mary was twenty-nine when I married.

    (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

    My daughter Betty (who is now well married, and has children) was then at her needle-work.

    (Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

    Bernard Higginbotham had married his sister, and he knew him well.

    (Martin Eden, by Jack London)

    Yes, a great while; ever since my sister married.

    (Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)


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