marry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæɹ.i/
enpr: mărʹē
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmæɹ.i/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmɛɹ.i/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmeɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈmæɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈmɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈma.ɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈma.ɹe/
rhymes: -æɹi
homophone: Mary
homophone: merry
homophone: Merry (all only in accents with the Mary–marry–merry merger)
Forms: form: marries
form: marrying
form: married
form: married
Etymology: From Middle English marien, from Anglo-Norman marïer, from Latin marītāre (“to wed”), from marītus (“husband, suitor”), from mās (“man, male”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *méryos (“young man”), same source as Sanskrit मर्य (márya, “suitor, young man”). Compare its feminine derivatives: Welsh morwyn (“girl”), merch (“daughter”), Crimean Gothic marzus (“wedding”), Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax, “boy; girl”), Lithuanian marti̇̀ (“bride”), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (maⁱriia, “yeoman”).) Displaced native Old English hīwian.
Senses: examples: text: Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry.
text: Evelyn, in his "Diary," under date 1641, says that at Haerlem "they showed us a cottage where, they told us, dwelt a woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth husband, and, being now a widow, was prohibited to marry in future; […] "
ref: 1641, John Evelyn, Diary, quoted in 1869 by Edward J. Wood in The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries, volume 2, page 241
text: But Esau, being now forty years of age, took a false step by marrying not only without his parents consent; but with two wives, daughters of the Hittites.
ref: 1755, The Holy Bible, both Old and New Testament, Digested, Illustrated, and Explained, second edition, page 59:
text: If and when Suzy does marry, it will be an open marriage because she's a believer in the "totality" of freedom.
ref: 1975 March 17, Marian Christy, “Suzy Chaffee, A Liberated Beauty”, in The Lebanon Daily News:
text: the rich relationed hometown queen marries into what she needs
ref: 1975 July, Janis Ian, “At Seventeen”:
synonyms: get married
wed
antonyms: divorce
glosses: To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
examples: text: Jack and Jenny married soon after they met.
glosses: To enter into marriage with one another.
examples: text: In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.
text: First Xavier (Vernon Chatman): You're about as deep as a bowl of soup, and your tongue is as sharp as a soup spoon.
Second Xavier (Vernon Chatman): Hey, say what you want about me, but lay off the soup.
First Xavier: If you love soup so much, why don't you marry soup?
Second Xavier: 'cause I'm already married. To justice.
First Xavier: Yeah. Only a blind girl would marry you.
ref: 2008, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 10:
glosses: To take as husband or wife.
examples: text: He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.
text: THe kyngdom̃ of hevẽ is lyke vnto a certayne kinge / which maryed his ſonne[…].
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew xxij:[2], folio xxx, verso:
text: The Queen has set the example of marrying her children very early in life; […]
ref: 1870 July 2, “Mr. Vivian A. Webber on “Population and Emigration.”, in The Isle of Wight Observer, number 931, Ryde, Isle of Wight, page 5, column 3:
glosses: To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.
examples: text: A justice of the peace will marry Jones and Smith.
text: His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailor's apprentice.
text: What ſhall the Curate controul me? Have I not the Preſentation? Tell him that I will not have my Play ſpoil'd; nay, that he ſhall marry the Couple himſelf—I ſay he ſhall.
ref: [1715], [John] Gay, The What D’Ye Call It: A Tragi-comi-pastoral Farce, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, Act II, scene ix, pages 38–39:
text: This is the Prieſt all ſhaven and ſhorn, that married the man all tattered and torn[.]
ref: 1784, The House that Jack Built, page 8:
glosses: To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place.
examples: text: There’s a big gap here. These two parts don’t marry properly.
text: I can’t connect it, because the plug doesn’t marry with the socket.
text: The firebox married to Britannia's boiler is not, however, in the Doncaster tradition, notwithstanding that it is comparable in dimensions to that of the "V2."
ref: 1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 273:
text: However, it now seems likely that means can be found to marry the W.R. and B.R. standard A.T.C. apparatus.
ref: 1959 September, “The Re-appraisal of the B.R. Modernisation Plan”, in Trains Illustrated, page 408:
glosses: To join or connect. See also marry up.
raw_tags: of inanimate or abstract things
examples: text: The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results.
text: Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 3:14:
text: For Faulkner, these years marry professional triumphs and personal disappointments: the Nobel Prize for Literature and an increasingly unlifting depression.
ref: 2006, Lisa C. Hickman, William Faulkner and Joan Williams: The Romance of Two Writers:
glosses: To unite; to join together into a close union.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.
Synonyms: word: bewed
word: conjoin
word: couple
word: espouse
word: handfast
word: hitch
word: join
word: marry
word: splice
word: spouse
word: wed
Hyponyms: word: wife
word: wive
Derived terms: devil is beating his wife and marrying his daughter
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Related terms: word: marriage
word: get married