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MARRIED MAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A married man; a woman's partner in marriage
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("married man" is a kind of...):
better half; married person; mate; partner; spouse (a person's partner in marriage)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "married man"):
benedick; benedict (a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor))
cuckold (a man whose wife committed adultery)
family man (a man whose family is of major importance in his life)
house husband; househusband (a husband who keeps house while his wife earns the family income)
uxoricide (a husband who murders his wife)
Context examples:
And Mr. Quinion, calling in Tipp the carman, who was a married man, and had a room to let, quartered me prospectively on him—by our mutual consent, as he had every reason to think; for I said nothing, though my resolution was now taken.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“I am a married man, and have been so for three years. During that time my wife and I have loved each other as fondly and lived as happily as any two that ever were joined. We have not had a difference, not one, in thought or word or deed. And now, since last Monday, there has suddenly sprung up a barrier between us, and I find that there is something in her life and in her thought of which I know as little as if she were the woman who brushes by me in the street. We are estranged, and I want to know why.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was a married man, with only one living child, a girl, about Jane's age: and Jane became their guest, paying them long visits and growing a favourite with all; and before she was nine years old, his daughter's great fondness for her, and his own wish of being a real friend, united to produce an offer from Colonel Campbell of undertaking the whole charge of her education.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
If Mrs. Gilbert wishes to dance, said he, I shall have great pleasure, I am sure—for, though beginning to feel myself rather an old married man, and that my dancing days are over, it would give me very great pleasure at any time to stand up with an old friend like Mrs. Gilbert.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
