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marriage

Pronunciation: /ˈmæɹɪd͡ʒ/

The English word “marriage” has 10 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The state of being married.
  2. A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.
  3. The union of only two people, to the exclusion of all others.
  4. The union of two people of opposite sex, to the exclusion of all others.
  5. A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed.
  6. A close union.
  7. A joining of two parts.
  8. A king and a queen, when held as a hand in some versions of poker or melded in pinochle.
  9. In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value.
  10. A homosexual relationship between male prisoners.

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.

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