married
Adjective:
- Legally united in marriage: Describes a person who has a spouse through a formal, legal, or recognized social union.
- Characteristic of or relating to marriage: Pertaining to the state, condition, or relationship of being married.
Noun:
- A married person: An individual who is in the state of marriage. Often used in the plural ("marrieds") to refer to married people as a group.
Adjective:
- She is happily married to her childhood friend.
- They have enjoyed a long and successful married life.
- The tax form asks for your married status.
Noun:
- The housing complex is popular with young marrieds.
- We invited several marrieds and singles to the party.
"to get married": To enter into the state of marriage; to wed.
- They plan to get married next spring.
"newly married": Recently wed.
- The newly married couple went on a honeymoon to Italy.
"married name": The surname a person adopts after marriage, traditionally for a woman taking her husband's surname.
- She chose to use her married name professionally.
Marriage (n): The formal union or institution of being married.
- Their marriage has lasted thirty years.
Marry (v): To take as a spouse; to perform a wedding ceremony.
- He wants to marry his girlfriend.
Remarried (adj): Married again after a previous marriage ended.
- She is remarried and has a new family.
- Wedded: United in marriage (often used in formal or literary contexts).
- They are a wedded couple.
- Spoused: Having a spouse (archaic or formal).
- Matrimonial: Relating to marriage (used more for things than people, e.g., matrimonial home).
- Single: Not married.
- Unmarried: Not married; single.
- Divorced: No longer married due to legal dissolution.
Married into: To become part of a family by marrying one of its members.
- He married into a very wealthy family.
Married with children: A phrase describing a family unit of parents and their offspring.
- They are a typical couple, married with children.
Married to the job: Excessively devoted to one's work, as if it were a spouse.
- He's so dedicated; he's practically married to the job.
Marry in haste, repent at leisure: A proverb warning that rushing into marriage can lead to long-term regret.
- Remember the old saying: "Marry in haste, repent at leisure."
- of or relating to the state of marriage
- marital status
- marital fidelity
- married bliss
- joined in matrimony
- a married man
- a married couple
- a person who is married
- we invited several young marrieds