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noun
The state of being married.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: matrimony, marriage
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A wife; a married woman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: marital status
Narrower terms: bigamy, common-law marriage, endogamy, intermarriage, inmarriage, exogamy, marriage of convenience, misalliance, monandry, monogamy, monogamousness, open marriage, cuckoldom, polygamy, sigeh
History
From Middle English wedlok, wedlocke (“wedlock, marriage, matrimony”), from Old English wedlāc (“marriage vow, pledge, plighted troth, wedlock”). By surface analysis, wed + -lock.
