mar·riage (m r  j)n. 1. a. The legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife, and in some jurisdictions, between two persons of the same sex, usually entailing legal obligations of each person to the other. b. A similar union of more than two people; a polygamous marriage. c. A union between persons that is recognized by custom or religious tradition as a marriage. d. A common-law marriage. e. The state or relationship of two adults who are married: Their marriage has been a happy one. 2. A wedding. 3. A close union: "the most successful marriage of beauty and blood in mainstream comics" (Lloyd Rose). 4. Games The combination of the king and queen of the same suit, as in pinochle. [Middle English mariage, from Old French, from marier, to marry; see marry1.] |
marriage [ˈmærɪdʒ]
n
1. the state or relationship of being husband and wife
2. (Law)
a. the legal union or contract made by a man and woman to live as husband and wife
b. (as modifier) marriage licence marriage certificate
3. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) (Law) the religious or legal ceremony formalizing this union; wedding
4. a close or intimate union, relationship, etc. a marriage of ideas
Marriage
See also relationship;wife
the form of marriage in which brothers have a common wife or wives. — adelphogamic, adj.
the state or practice of being married to more than one wife or one husband at a time. — bigamist, n. — bigamous, adj.
the state of being single or unmarried, especially in the case of one bound by vows not to marry. — celibate, n., adj.
an advocate of celibacy.
the practice of a married woman having an escort or cavalier, called a cicisbeo, in attendance.
digamism. — deuterogamist, n. — deuterogamous, adj.
a second legal marriage after the termination of a first marriage by death or divorce. Also called deuterogamy. — digamist, n. — digamous, adj.
the custom of marrying only within one’s tribe or similar social unit. — endogamic, endogamous, adj.
a song or poem composed and performed in honor of a bride or groom.
the practice of marrying only outside one’s tribe or similar social unit. — exogamic, exogamous, adj.
1. Obsolete, a form of mania characterized by strange and extravagant proposals of marriage.
2. an excessive longing for the married state.
2. an excessive longing for the married state.
an abnormal fear of marriage.
the killing of a husband. — mariticidal, adj.
the act or state of marriage; married life. — matrimonial, adj.
a hatred of marriage. — misogamist, n. — misogamic, adj.
the custom of marriage to only one man at a time. — monandrous, adj.
the custom of marriage to one wife or one husband at a time. — monogamous, adj.
designating or pertaining to a marriage between a man of high social standing and a woman of lower station in which the marriage contract stipulates that neither she nor their offspring will have claim to his rank or property.
a person recently married; a newlywed.
the condition of being marriageable, especially in reference to a woman’s age or physical development. — nubile, adj.
a form of marriage in which every woman in a community is married to every man and every man is married to every woman. — pantagamic, adj.
the best man or maid of honor at a wedding.
the practice of having two or more husbands at a time. — polyandrous, adj.
the practice or state of being married to more than one person at a time. — polygamous, adj.
the practice of having two or more wives at a time. — polygynous, polygynious, adj.
a nuptial or wedding song or verse.
the condition of having three spouses, especially in the criminal sense of having them simultaneously. — trigamous, adj.
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  marriage - the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" marital status - the condition of being married or unmarried bigamy - having two spouses at the same time common-law marriage - a marriage relationship created by agreement and cohabitation rather than by ceremony endogamy, inmarriage, intermarriage - marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law exogamy, intermarriage - marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law marriage of convenience - a marriage for expediency rather than love misalliance - an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage) monandry - the state of having only one husband at a time monogamousness, monogamy - having only one spouse at a time open marriage - a marriage in which each partner is free to enter into extraneous sexual relationships without guilt or jealousy from the other cuckoldom - the state of a husband whose wife has committed adultery polygamy - having more than one spouse at a time 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; "sigeh legally wraps premarital sex in an Islamic cloak" |
| 2. |  marriage - two people who are married to each other; "his second marriage was happier than the first"; "a married couple without love"family unit, family - primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" mixed marriage - marriage of two people from different races or different religions or different cultures; "the families of both partners in a mixed marriage often disapprove" | |
| 3. |  marriage - the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony; "their marriage was conducted in the chapel"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 | |
| 4. | marriage - a close and intimate union; "the marriage of music and dance"; "a marriage of ideas" unification, union - the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union" |
marriage
noun
1. wedding, match, nuptials, wedlock, wedding ceremony, matrimony, espousal, nuptial rites When did the marriage take place?
2. union, coupling, link, association, alliance, merger, confederation, amalgamation The merger is an audacious marriage between old and new.
Quotations
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh" Bible: Genesis
"`Marriage': this I call the will that moves two to create the one which is more than those who created it" [Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra]
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds"
"Admit impediments. Love is not love"
"Which alters when it alteration finds,"
"Or bends with the remover to remove" [William Shakespeare Sonnet 116]
"A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship - a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is" [Anthony Storr The Integrity of the Personality]
"Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church" [Pope John Paul II]
"Marriage is socialism among two people" [Barbara Ehrenreich The Worst Years of Our Lives]
"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast" [Gabriel García Márquez Love in the Time of Cholera]
"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it" [John Steinbeck Travels With Charley: In Search of America]
"Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable" [Søren Kierkegaard Either/Or]
"Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest" [George Eliot Romola]
"A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one" [Queen Victoria Letter to her daughter]
"Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug" [Max Frisch I'm Not Stiller]
"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance" [Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice]
"Every woman should marry - and no man" [Benjamin Disraeli Lothair]
"There are good marriages, but no delightful ones" [Duc de la Rochefoucauld Réflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales]
"It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else" [Samuel Rogers Table Talk]
"It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can" [George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman]
"Marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses" [Robert Louis Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque]
"I married beneath me, all women do" [Nancy Astor]
"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor - which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony" [Jane Austen letter]
"Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit" [Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle Nature's Three Daughters]
"Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play" [William Congreve The Old Bachelor]
"I am to be married within these three days; married past redemption" [John Dryden Marriage à la Mode]
"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed" [William Shakespeare As You Like It]
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet" [Mae West]
"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures" [Dr. Johnson]
"Marriages are made in Heaven" [John Lyly Euphues and his England]
"Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed" [Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance]
"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short" [André Maurois Memories]
"Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness" [Langdon Mitchell]
"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity" [George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists]
"Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition" [Samuel Pepys]
"There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves" [Jane Austen Mansfield Park]
"It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs. Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four" [Samuel Butler]
"one fool at least in every married couple" [Henry Fielding Amelia]
"There once was an old man of Lyme"
"Who married three wives at a time,"
"When asked 'Why a third?'"
"He replied, `One's absurd!"
"And bigamy, Sir, is a crime!'" [William Cosmo Monkhouse]
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh" Bible: Genesis
"`Marriage': this I call the will that moves two to create the one which is more than those who created it" [Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra]
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds"
"Admit impediments. Love is not love"
"Which alters when it alteration finds,"
"Or bends with the remover to remove" [William Shakespeare Sonnet 116]
"A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship - a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is" [Anthony Storr The Integrity of the Personality]
"Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church" [Pope John Paul II]
"Marriage is socialism among two people" [Barbara Ehrenreich The Worst Years of Our Lives]
"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast" [Gabriel García Márquez Love in the Time of Cholera]
"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it" [John Steinbeck Travels With Charley: In Search of America]
"Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable" [Søren Kierkegaard Either/Or]
"Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest" [George Eliot Romola]
"A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one" [Queen Victoria Letter to her daughter]
"Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug" [Max Frisch I'm Not Stiller]
"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance" [Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice]
"Every woman should marry - and no man" [Benjamin Disraeli Lothair]
"There are good marriages, but no delightful ones" [Duc de la Rochefoucauld Réflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales]
"It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else" [Samuel Rogers Table Talk]
"It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can" [George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman]
"Marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses" [Robert Louis Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque]
"I married beneath me, all women do" [Nancy Astor]
"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor - which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony" [Jane Austen letter]
"Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit" [Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle Nature's Three Daughters]
"Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play" [William Congreve The Old Bachelor]
"I am to be married within these three days; married past redemption" [John Dryden Marriage à la Mode]
"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed" [William Shakespeare As You Like It]
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet" [Mae West]
"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures" [Dr. Johnson]
"Marriages are made in Heaven" [John Lyly Euphues and his England]
"Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed" [Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance]
"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short" [André Maurois Memories]
"Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness" [Langdon Mitchell]
"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity" [George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists]
"Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition" [Samuel Pepys]
"There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves" [Jane Austen Mansfield Park]
"It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs. Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four" [Samuel Butler]
"one fool at least in every married couple" [Henry Fielding Amelia]
"There once was an old man of Lyme"
"Who married three wives at a time,"
"When asked 'Why a third?'"
"He replied, `One's absurd!"
"And bigamy, Sir, is a crime!'" [William Cosmo Monkhouse]
Translations
marriage [ˈmærɪdʒ]
A. N
1. (= state of being married) → matrimonio m
aunt by marriage → tía f política
to be related by marriage → estar emparentados
to become related by marriage to sb → emparentar con algn
marriage of convenience → matrimonio m de conveniencia
to give sb in marriage to → casar a algn con, dar a algn en matrimonio a
aunt by marriage → tía f política
to be related by marriage → estar emparentados
to become related by marriage to sb → emparentar con algn
marriage of convenience → matrimonio m de conveniencia
to give sb in marriage to → casar a algn con, dar a algn en matrimonio a
2. (= wedding) → boda f, casamiento m (fig) → unión f
B. CPD marriage bed N → lecho m nupcial, tálamo m (frm)
marriage bonds NPL → lazos mpl or vínculos mpl matrimoniales
marriage broker N → casamentero/a m/f
marriage bureau N → agencia f matrimonial
marriage ceremony N → ceremonia f nupcial, matrimonio m
marriage certificate N → partida f matrimonial or de matrimonio
marriage counseling N (US) = marriage guidance marriage counselor N (US) = marriage guidance counsellor marriage guidance N → orientación f matrimonial
marriage guidance counsellor N → consejero/a m/f matrimonial
marriage licence, marriage license N (US) → licencia f matrimonial
marriage lines NPL (Brit) → partida f matrimonial or de matrimonio
marriage partner N → cónyuge mf, consorte mf
marriage rate N → (índice m de) nupcialidad f
marriage settlement N → contrato m matrimonial (Jur) → capitulaciones fpl (matrimoniales)
marriage vows NPL → votos mpl matrimoniales
marriage bonds NPL → lazos mpl or vínculos mpl matrimoniales
marriage broker N → casamentero/a m/f
marriage bureau N → agencia f matrimonial
marriage ceremony N → ceremonia f nupcial, matrimonio m
marriage certificate N → partida f matrimonial or de matrimonio
marriage counseling N (US) = marriage guidance marriage counselor N (US) = marriage guidance counsellor marriage guidance N → orientación f matrimonial
marriage guidance counsellor N → consejero/a m/f matrimonial
marriage licence, marriage license N (US) → licencia f matrimonial
marriage lines NPL (Brit) → partida f matrimonial or de matrimonio
marriage partner N → cónyuge mf, consorte mf
marriage rate N → (índice m de) nupcialidad f
marriage settlement N → contrato m matrimonial (Jur) → capitulaciones fpl (matrimoniales)
marriage vows NPL → votos mpl matrimoniales
marriage [ˈmærɪdʒ] n → mariage m
six years of marriage → six ans de mariage
I never wanted marriage
BUT Je n'ai jamais voulu me marier.
marriage to sb → mariage avec qn
I opposed her marriage to Darryl → Je me suis opposé à son mariage avec Darryl.
marriage bureau n → agence f matrimoniale
marriage ceremony n → cérémonie f de mariage
marriage certificate n → acte m de mariage
marriage guidance (British) marriage counseling (US) n → conseil m conjugal
marriage guidance counsellor (British) marriage counselor (US) n → conseiller/ère m/f conjugal(e)
marriage of convenience n → mariage m de convenance
marriage vows npl → vœux mpl de mariage
six years of marriage → six ans de mariage
I never wanted marriage
BUT Je n'ai jamais voulu me marier.
marriage to sb → mariage avec qn
I opposed her marriage to Darryl → Je me suis opposé à son mariage avec Darryl.
marriage bureau n → agence f matrimoniale
marriage ceremony n → cérémonie f de mariage
marriage certificate n → acte m de mariage
marriage guidance (British) marriage counseling (US) n → conseil m conjugal
marriage guidance counsellor (British) marriage counselor (US) n → conseiller/ère m/f conjugal(e)
marriage of convenience n → mariage m de convenance
marriage vows npl → vœux mpl de mariage
marriage
marriage:
n
(state) → die Ehe; (= wedding) → Hochzeit f, → Heirat f; (= marriage ceremony) → Trauung f; marriage of convenience → Vernunftehe f; relations by marriage → angeheiratete Verwandte; to be related by marriage (in-laws) → miteinander verschwägert sein; (others) → miteinander verwandt sein; to give somebody in marriage to somebody → jdn jdm zur Frau geben; to give somebody in marriage → jdn verheiraten; an offer of marriage → ein Heiratsantrag m
marriage:
marriage bed
n → Ehebett nt
marriage broker
n → Heiratsvermittler(in) m(f); (Jur) → Ehemakler(in) m(f)
marriage bureau
n → Heiratsinstitut nt
marriage ceremony
n → Trauzeremonie f
marriage certificate
n → Heiratsurkunde f
marriage contract
n (Jur) → Ehevertrag m
marriage counselling, (US) marriage counseling
n → Eheberatung f
marriage counsellor, (US) marriage counselor
n → Eheberater(in) m(f)
marriage guidance
n → Eheberatung f
marriage guidance centre, marriage guidance center (US)
n → Eheberatungsstelle f
marriage guidance counsellor, marriage guidance counselor (US)
n → Eheberater(in) m(f)
marriage licence, (US) marriage license
n → Eheerlaubnis f
marriage lines
pl → Trauschein m
marriage plans
pl → Hochzeitspläne pl
marriage portion
n (old) → Mitgift f
marriage problems
pl → Eheprobleme pl
marriage proposal
n → Heiratsantrag m
marriage settlement
n → Ehevertrag m
marriage vow
n → Ehegelübde nt
marriage [ˈmærɪdʒ]
marriage [ˈmærɪdʒ]
2. adj (vows) → di matrimonio; (bed) → coniugale
marriage [ˈmærɪdʒ]
2. adj (vows) → di matrimonio; (bed) → coniugale
n marriage [ˈmӕridʒ]
1 the ceremony by which a man and woman become husband and wife Their marriage took place last week; (also adjective ) the marriage ceremony. troue مَراسيم الزَّواج сватба svatba; svatební bryllup; bryllups- die Hochzeit; Hochzeits-... γάμος, γαμήλια τελετή boda pulmad جشن ازدواج häät, hää- mariage טֶקֶס נִישואִים, חֲתוּנָה शादी vjenčanje házasságkötés, (polgári) esküvő perkawinan gifting, hjónavígsla matrimonio 結婚式 결혼식 vestuvės, vedybos laulība perkahwinan huwelijk bryllup, vielse małżeństwo, ślub casamento căsătorie свадьба svadba; svadobný poroka brak giftermål, bröllop พิธีแต่งงาน evlenme, nikâh (töreni) 婚禮 шлюб; одруження شادی đám cưới 婚礼
2 the state of being married; married life Their marriage lasted for thirty happy years. huwelik زواج، حياة الزَّواج брак manželství ægteskab die Ehe γάμος, παντρειά matrimonio abielu ازدواج avioliitto mariage נִישואִים विवाह, ब्याह, शादी, विवाह-संस्कार, पाणिग्रहण-संस्कार, अंतरंगता, अंतरंग संयोग brak házasság perkawinan hjónaband matrimonio 結婚 결혼 상태 santuoka, vedybinis gyvenimas laulība, laulības dzīve perkahwinan huwelijk ekteskap małżeństwo casamento căsnicie брак manželstvo zakon brak äktenskap ภาวะที่แต่งงานกัน evlilik 婚姻 шлюб شادی شدہ زندگی kết hôn 婚姻
3 a close joining together the marriage of his skill and her judgement. samevoeging تَزاوُج، مُزاوَجَه، دَمْج връзка spojení forening die Verbindung πάντρεμα, ζευγάρωμα enlace liit اتحاد liitto alliance חִיבּוּר spoj egyesülés perpaduan náið samand unione 結合 결합 junginys, glaudi sąjunga apvienojums, vienotība perpaduan huwelijk (skjønn) forening mariaż união îmbinare, legătură союз spojenie tesna zveza spoj förening การรวมสองสิ่งเข้าไว้ด้วยกัน birleşme, uyuşma 密切結合 тісний союз کوئی گہرا تعلق sự kết hợp chặt chẽ 密切结合
adj marriageable
suitable, or at a proper age, for marriage He has four marriageable daughters; marriageable age. hubaar صالِح للزَّواج، في سِن الزَّواج подходящ na ženění, na vdávání giftefærdig heiratsfähig σε ηλικία γάμου casadero, en edad de casarse, en edad casadera abiellumisealine بالغ naimaikäinen mariable בִּגיל מַתאִים לְנִישואִים विवाह योग्य sposoban za brak házasulandó korú sampai umur á giftingaraldri (in età da marito); (in età da prendere moglie) 年ごろの 결혼에 적당한 galintis vesti/tekėti, santuokinio amžiaus izprecināms; precību- umur sesuai untuk kahwin huwbaar gifteferdig na wydaniu, do wzięcia casadouro de măritat, de însurat достигший брачного возраста na ženenie, na vydaj goden za poroko za udaju giftasvuxen ซึ่งแต่งงานได้ evlenebilir, evlenecek yaşta (年齡)適宜結婚的 той, що досяг шлюбного віку شادی کے لائق đủ tư cách kết hôn （年龄）适宜结婚的
marriage licence
a paper giving official permission for a marriage to take place. troulisensie تَرْخيص رَسْمي بالزَّواج брачен документ povolení k sňatku vielsesattest amtliche Eheerlaubnis άδεια γάμου licencia matrimonial abiellumisluba گواهی ازدواج vihkimislupa certificat de publication des bans רִישיוֹן נִישואִים विवाह अनुज्ञा slobodni list házasságkötési engedély surat izin nikah leyfisbréf, giftingarvottorð permesso/licenza di matrimonio 結婚許可証 혼인 증서 santuokos leidimas laulību atļauja surat izin nikah huwelijksvergunning vielsesattest zgoda na zawarcie ślubu licença de casamento certificat de căsătorie разрешение на брак povolenie na svadbu poročno dovoljenje bračna dozvola äktenskapslicens ทะเบียนสมรส evlenme cüzdanı 結婚證 дозвіл на шлюб شادی کا اجازت نامہ giấy đăng ký kết hôn 结婚登记证
marriage → زواج manželství ægteskab Ehe γάμος matrimonio avioliitto mariage brak matrimonio 結婚 결혼 huwelijk ekteskap małżeństwo casamento брак äktenskap การแต่งงาน evlilik sự kết hôn 婚姻
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