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remarry

verb · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Pronunciation

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UK: /ɹiːˈmæɹi/
Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
rhymes with -æɹi
CMU ARPABET: R IY0 M EH1 R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

verb

Meaning 1

To marry a second or subsequent time (the same spouse or a different one) after the end of a marriage.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

After his wife's death, he never remarried.
To everyone's surprise, after being divorced for ten years the couple eloped to Las Vegas and remarried.
This church will remarry widows or widowers, but not divorcés.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

verb

Meaning 2

marry, not for the first time

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

After her divorce, she remarried her high school sweetheart

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: marry, get married, wed, conjoin, hook up with, get hitched with, espouse

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English marry English remarry From re- + marry.

Across languages

Translations

8 source translations are retained for this English entry.

Bulgarian: женя се повторно (ženja se povtorno) — To marry a second or subsequent time
Chinese Mandarin: 再婚 (zàihūn) — To marry a second or subsequent time
Dutch: hertrouwen — To marry a second or subsequent time
Finnish: mennä uusiin naimisiin — To marry a second or subsequent time
Finnish: mennä uudestaan naimisiin — To marry a second or subsequent time
Hungarian: újraházasodik — To marry a second or subsequent time
Manx: aaphoos — To marry a second or subsequent time
Norwegian Bokmål: gifte seg på nytt — To marry a second or subsequent time

Word forms

Inflections and variants

remarries — present, singular, third-person
remarrying — participle, present
remarried — participle, past
remarried — past
remarried — verb exception form

Word family

Derived and related words

Derived: remarrier

Related: remarriage

Semantic map

Other relationships

Hypernyms: marry, get married, wed, conjoin, hook up with, get hitched with, espouse

Sources

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