marriage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: From Middle English mariage, from Old French mariage, from marier (“to marry”), from Latin marītō (“marry”, verb, literally “give in marriage”), from marītus (“lover”, “nuptial”), from mas (“male, masculine, of the male sex”). Equivalent to marry + -age. Doublet of maritage. Displaced native Old English sinsċipe.
Base: marry
Affixes: -age
Inflected forms:
form: marriages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mariage
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The state of being married.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You should enter marriage for love.
gloss: A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: By his marriage to his two wives, Tapuwae quietly strengthened all of the pas of the Wairoa district, as many of them came under his control through these unions.
One layman in Buddha's time decided to embrace celibacy and relinquished his marriage vows to his four wives. When he asked them what they wanted in terms of a settlement, one said, […]
The account of the loss of the blessing of his father Isaac appears immediately after Esau's marriage to his Hittite wives.
In an open marriage, the partners are free to have extramarital relationships or sex without betraying one another. Such a marriage is based on communication, trust, and respect, […]
Now can we eat? Marriages are arranged for whatever purpose is suitable. All this talk of undying love and childbearing squirms in my stomach like a worm that demands feeding.
gloss: A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
sometimes
specifically
uncountable
examples: My grandparents' marriage lasted for forty years.
Pat and Leslie's marriage to each other lasted forty years.
"I have a patient right now whose marriage proved to be a tragedy. She wanted love, sexual gratification, children, and social prestige; but life blasted all her hopes. Her husband didn't love her. He refused even to eat with her, and forced her to serve his meals in his room upstairs. She had no children, no social standing. She went insane; and, in her imagination, she divorced her husband and resumed her maiden name. She now believes she has married into the English aristocracy, and she insists on being called Lady Smith.
gloss: A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
often
specifically
uncountable
gloss: A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe.
gloss: A close union.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: And this marriage of poetry and history remained a solid relationship throughout the classical period.
Above all, we will no longer have to feel qualms about the marriage of art and money. We will no longer have to wonder if it is possible to separate the esthetic value of an art work from its commercial value.
But the food is real: a marriage of local ingredients and serious technique.
That bitter rivalry -- between Thaksin's supporters, known as the Red Shirts, and the royalist elites, known as the Yellow Shirts -- has been a hallmark of politics for the past 20 years, with deadly street protests a common occurrence. Friday's announcement signals a surprise marriage between the two sides, with Ubolratana having the power to break that cycle.
gloss: A joining of two parts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: A king and a queen, when held as a hand in some versions of poker or melded in pinochle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A homosexual relationship between male prisoners.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
Synonyms: matrimony
wedding
civil union
Antonyms: divorce
Related words: marry
adelphogamy
bigamy
cohabitation
divorce
group marriage
matrimony
monogamy
one flesh
polyandry
polygamy
polygyny
wedding
Derived words: antimarriage
arranged marriage
ask for someone's hand in marriage
banns of marriage
bisexual marriage
Boston marriage
brokeback marriage
celestial marriage
celestial plural marriage
ceremonial marriage
child marriage
circle marriage
civil marriage
common-law marriage
commuter marriage
companionate marriage
complex marriage
conjoint marriage
consanguine marriage
consummate marriage
cross-cousin marriage
customary marriage
cybermarriage
earthly marriage
equal marriage
eternal marriage
extramarriage
faggot marriage
fag marriage
Fleet marriage
frank-marriage
gay marriage
ghost marriage
group marriage
heavenly marriage
hedge marriage
hetero marriage
hetero-marriage
heteromarriage
homomarriage
homosexual marriage
informal marriage
inmarriage
intermarriage
inter-marriage
intra-marriage
intramarriage
jactitation of marriage
Josephite marriage
lavender marriage
levirate marriage
line marriage
love marriage
marriageability
marriageable
marriageableness
marriageably
marriage agency
marriage agent
marriage bed
marriage broker
marriage bureau
marriage by cohabitation with habit and repute
marriage by habit and repute
marriage certificate
marriage counsellor
marriage counselor
marriage encounter
marriage equality
marriage finger
marriage guidance
marriage inequality
marriageless
marriage licence
marriage license
marriagelike
marriage line
marriage lines
marriage lite
marriage of convenience
marriage penalty
marriage-portion
marriage ring
marriage stone
marriage string
marriage value
marriage vow
marriage–industrial complex
midmarriage
mismarriage
mixed marriage
mop marriage
morganatic marriage
multilateral marriage
mystical marriage
natural marriage
nonmarriage
open marriage
outmarriage
plural marriage
posthumous marriage
postmarriage
post-marriage
premarriage
pre-marriage
propose marriage
proxy marriage
pseudo-marriage
pseudomarriage
putative marriage
remarriage
republican marriage
royal marriage
same-gender marriage
same-sex marriage
sham marriage
shim-pua marriage
shotgun marriage
sororate marriage
spirit marriage
stable marriage problem
starter marriage
suspended marriage
temple marriage
traditional marriage
transgender marriage
unmarriage
unmarriageability
unmarriageable
walking marriage
white marriage
work marriage
yogic marriage
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