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View synonyms for married

married

[mar-eed]

adjective

  1. united in wedlock; wedded.

    married couples.

  2. of or relating to marriage or married persons; connubial; conjugal.

    married happiness.

  3. (of an antique) created from components of two or more authentic pieces.

  4. interconnected or joined; united.

  5. (of a family name) acquired through marriage.



noun

  1. Usually marrieds. married couples or married people.

    young marrieds moving into their first home.

married

/ ˈmærɪd /

adjective

  1. having a husband or wife

  2. joined in marriage

    a married couple

  3. of or involving marriage or married persons

  4. closely or intimately united

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noun

  1. (usually plural) a married person (esp in the phrase young marrieds )

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Other Word Forms

  • marriedly adverb
  • unmarried adjective
  • well-married adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of married1

Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; marry 1, -ed 2
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Example Sentences

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“I’ve been married, now I’m divorced. But, if you fall down on the ice, can you imagine how many times I had to fall down and get up?”

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“I want to have kids like yesterday,” said Castro, who isn’t married.

Be it moving in with partners, getting married, focusing on our careers or starting a family, friendships become "the easiest place for collateral damage" for both men and women explains author Dolly Alderton.

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She never married and had two adopted children - a daughter, Dexter, and a son, Duke.

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Not long after that, he was married, and the couple had two children.

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