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- Dictionarymarriage/ˈmarɪdʒ/
noun
- 1. the legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a personal relationship (historically and in some jurisdictions specifically a union between a man and a woman): "a happy marriage" Similar Opposite
- 2. a combination or mixture of elements: "her music is a marriage of funk, jazz, and hip-hop" Similar Opposite
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Definitions. Anthropologists have proposed several competing definitions of marriage in an attempt to encompass the wide variety of marital practices observed across cultures. Even within Western culture, "definitions of marriage have careened from one extreme to another and everywhere in between" (as Evan Gerstmann has put it).
1. a. see usage paragraph below : the state of being united as spouses in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law. b. : the mutual relation of married persons : wedlock. c. : the institution whereby individuals are joined in a marriage. 2. : an act of marrying or the rite by which the married status is effected.
a legally accepted relationship between two people in which they live together, or the official ceremony that results in this: They had a long and happy marriage. She went to live in another state after the break-up of her marriage. She has two daughters by her first marriage. the marriage ceremony.
Jun 3, 2024 · marriage, a legally and socially sanctioned union, usually between a man and a woman, that is regulated by laws, rules, customs, beliefs, and attitudes that prescribe the rights and duties of the partners and accords status to their offspring (if any).
a legally accepted relationship between two people in which they live together, or the official ceremony that results in this: They had a long and happy marriage. She went to live in another state after the break-up of her marriage. She has two daughters by her first marriage. the marriage ceremony.
a relationship in which two people have pledged themselves to each other in the manner of a husband and wife, without legal sanction: trial marriage. any close or intimate association or union: the marriage of words and music in a hit song. Synonyms: confederation, alliance, oneness, unity, merger, blend.
[countable] the legal relationship between two people who are married to each other. a happy/an unhappy marriage. All of her children's marriages ended in divorce. She has two children by a previous marriage. This is his second marriage. Same-sex marriages are now recognized in many countries.
Marriage is the process by which two people make their relationship public, official, and permanent. It is the joining of two people in a bond that putatively lasts until...
1. the state or relationship of living together in a legal partnership. 2. (Law) a. the legal union or contract made by two people to live together. b. ( as modifier ): marriage licence; marriage certificate. 3. (Ecclesiastical Terms) the religious or legal ceremony formalizing this union; wedding. 4.
marriage noun (CEREMONY) B1. the ceremony where people become a husband and a wife: a marriage ceremony / certificate. (Definition of marriage from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
