What does married mean?

Definitions for married
ˈmær idmar·ried

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word married.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. marriedadjective

    a person who is married

    "we invited several young marrieds"

  2. marriedadjective

    joined in matrimony

    "a married man"; "a married couple"

  3. marital, matrimonial, marriedadjective

    of or relating to the state of marriage

    "marital status"; "marital fidelity"; "married bliss"

GCIDE

  1. Marriedadjective

    Wedded to each other; as, a married couple; John and Joan are no longer married; -- of two people.

Wiktionary

  1. marriednoun

    A married person.

  2. marriedadjective

    In a state of marriage; having a wife or a husband.

  3. marriedadjective

    Showing commitment or devotion normally reserved for a spouse: married to one's work.

  4. Etymology: marry + -ed

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Marriedadjective

    Conjugal; connubial.

    Etymology: from marry.

    Thus have you shun’d the marry’d state. Dryden.

Wikipedia

  1. married

    Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognized union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children, and between them and their in-laws. It is nearly a cultural universal, but the definition of marriage varies between cultures and religions, and over time. Typically, it is an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually sexual, are acknowledged or sanctioned. In some cultures, marriage is recommended or considered to be compulsory before pursuing any sexual activity. A marriage ceremony is called a wedding. Individuals may marry for several reasons, including legal, social, libidinal, emotional, financial, spiritual, and religious purposes. Whom they marry may be influenced by gender, socially determined rules of incest, prescriptive marriage rules, parental choice, and individual desire. In some areas of the world, arranged marriage, child marriage, polygamy, and forced marriage are practiced. In other areas, such practices are outlawed to preserve women's rights or children's rights (both female and male) or as a result of international law. In some parts of the world, marriage has historically restricted the rights of women, who are (or were) considered the property of the husband. Around the world, primarily in developed democracies, there has been a general trend towards ensuring equal rights for women within marriage (including abolishing coverture, liberalizing divorce laws, and reforming reproductive and sexual rights) and legally recognizing the marriages of interfaith, interracial/interethnic/inter-caste, and same-sex couples. Controversies continue regarding the legal status of married women, leniency towards violence within marriage, customs such as dowry and bride price, forced marriage, marriageable age, and criminalization of premarital and extramarital sex. Female age at marriage has proven to be a strong indicator for female autonomy and is continuously used by economic history research.Marriage can be recognized by a state, an organization, a religious authority, a tribal group, a local community, or peers. It is often viewed as a contract. A religious marriage is performed by a religious institution to recognize and create the rights and obligations intrinsic to matrimony in that religion. Religious marriage is known variously as sacramental marriage in Catholicism, nikah in Islam, nissuin in Judaism, and various other names in other faith traditions, each with their own constraints as to what constitutes, and who can enter into, a valid religious marriage.

ChatGPT

  1. married

    Married generally refers to the legal and social union between two individuals, typically a man and a woman, who have entered into a contract recognized by the state or other governing authority. It involves a commitment to sharing a domestic life, emotional support, financial responsibilities, and legal rights and obligations. Marriage is often based on love, partnership, and mutual consent, and is typically intended to be a lifelong commitment.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Married

    of Marry

Wikidata

  1. Married

    Married is a BBC radio comedy with science fiction themes, first aired on BBC Radio 4. The main character is Robin Lightfoot, a confirmed bachelor with a successful architectural practice, who wakes up one day in a parallel universe in which he is married with two children. Unfortunately his counterpart in the parallel universe, who has evidently been swapped into our universe, is a cad, a womanizer, a swindler and possibly a murderer. Only the younger of the two children, Ned, believes Robin's story, largely because he reads about parallel universes in comic books. Apart from his previously unknown wife Leslie, and the children Maxine and Ned, Robin finds the new universe populated by people he already knows, but who are different. His former business partner Dirk is still his partner in this universe, but the business is writing greeting card messages, and Dirk, who is married in our universe, is an unmarried sexual addict in the alternate one. The ruling monarch is a King John, son of King Richard who dies during the first series. Richard was apparently the son of Edward VIII who got cold feet at the last minute when about to abdicate. King John, however, is openly gay so the prospects for an immediate heir are not good. While as Prince John he was known as an adventurer, setting records for ballooning, soon after his coronation he abandons the Royal spouse in favour of his gay lover, who was also his partner in his adventures.

Editors Contribution

  1. married

    Together and united in marriage.

    They were married on the day they chose and spent a beautiful, peaceful, calm, loving, fun and united day with family, friends and colleagues..


    Submitted by MaryC on March 22, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'married' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2032

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'married' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1434

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'married' in Adjectives Frequency: #252

Anagrams for married »

  1. admirer

  2. mardier

  3. madrier

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of married in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of married in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of married in a Sentence

  1. Keanu Reeves:

    We did a whole take of a marriage ceremony with real priests, winona says we are [ married ]. Coppola says we are. So I guess we're married... under the eyes of God.

  2. Roland Dumas:

    Everyone knows he is married to someone really good but who has an influence on him.

  3. Michael Rosenbaum:

    I thought she would be married with kids. She was smart, and her family was into music and opera and stuff, and sort of upper class.

  4. Betty Pina:

    I’m worried about everything I’ve ever worked for, i’m not married, I don’t have kids. My career has been my No. 1.

  5. Kakenya Ntaiya:

    I really liked going to school, i knew that once I went through the cutting, I was going to be married off. And my dream of becoming a teacher was going to end.

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