married
united in wedlock; wedded: married couples.
of or relating to marriage or married persons; connubial; conjugal: married happiness.
(of an antique) created from components of two or more authentic pieces.
interconnected or joined; united.
(of a family name) acquired through marriage.
Usually marrieds. married couples or married people: young marrieds moving into their first home.
Origin of married
1Other words from married
- mar·ried·ly, adverb
- un·mar·ried, adjective, noun
- well-married, adjective
Words Nearby married
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How to use married in a sentence
You can still get your license at the court—just not actually get married there.
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As of this afternoon, gay Floridians can get married in Dade County.
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McCauley may have married beneath her station, but Gordon-Levitt has obsessive fans.
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Her eldest daughter married in America, and was well known as a modeller in wax in New York.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. | Clara Erskine ClementThe Authorised Version has: “And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin.”
Solomon and Solomonic Literature | Moncure Daniel ConwayIn 1856 she married Mesdag, who, rather late in life decided to follow the career of a painter.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. | Clara Erskine ClementSometimes it was a young girl, again a widow; but as often as not it was some interesting married woman.
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British Dictionary definitions for married
/ (ˈmærɪd) /
having a husband or wife
joined in marriage: a married couple
of or involving marriage or married persons
closely or intimately united
(usually plural) a married person (esp in the phrase young marrieds)
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