married
- Usually marrieds. married couples or married people: young marrieds moving into their first home.
Origin of married
marry1
- to take in marriage: After dating for five years, I finally asked her to marry me.
- to perform the marriage ceremonies for (two people); join in wedlock: The minister married Susan and Ed.
- to give in marriage; arrange the marriage of (often followed by off): Her father wants to marry her to his friend's son. They want to marry off all their children before selling their big home.
- to unite intimately: Common economic interests marry the two countries.
- to take as an intimate life partner by a formal exchange of promises in the manner of a traditional marriage ceremony.
- to combine, connect, or join so as to make more efficient, attractive, or profitable: The latest cameras marry automatic and manual features. A recent merger marries two of the nation's largest corporations.
- Nautical.
- to lay together (the unlaid strands of two ropes) to be spliced.
- to seize (two ropes) together end to end for use as a single line.
- to seize (parallel ropes) together at intervals.
- to cause (food, liquor, etc.) to blend with other ingredients: to marry malt whiskey with grain whiskey.
- to wed.
- (of two or more foods, wines, etc.) to combine suitably or agreeably; blend: This wine and the strong cheese just don't marry.
Origin of marry1
Examples from the Web for married
Contemporary Examples
You can still get your license at the court—just not actually get married there.
The Back Alley, Low Blow-Ridden Fight to Stop Gay Marriage in Florida Is Finally OverJay Michaelson
January 5, 2015
It was the finest moment of my life in 1986 when I married him.
As of this afternoon, gay Floridians can get married in Dade County.
The Back Alley, Low Blow-Ridden Fight to Stop Gay Marriage in Florida Is Finally OverJay Michaelson
January 5, 2015
McCauley may have married beneath her station, but Gordon-Levitt has obsessive fans.
All Your Internet Boyfriends Are Taken: Gosling, Cumberbatch, and now Joseph Gordon-LevittMelissa Leon
January 3, 2015
May their married life have laughter, and that they love one another forever after!
All Your Internet Boyfriends Are Taken: Gosling, Cumberbatch, and now Joseph Gordon-LevittMelissa Leon
January 3, 2015
Historical Examples
To have married a girl who cared only for his money; that would have been dire enough.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
"And so he married money," concluded Mrs. Gwilt-Athelstan of one they had discussed.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
Poor chap, and he'd been talkin' to me about the monotony of married life.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
If you had married him you'd 'a' had a position, like they say here, right away.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
If he had married her—if they were married now—then you would feel free to marry me?
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
married
- having a husband or wife
- joined in marriagea married couple
- of or involving marriage or married persons
- closely or intimately united
- (usually plural) a married person (esp in the phrase young marrieds)
marry1
- to take (someone as one's partner) in marriage
- (tr) to join or give in marriage
- (tr) to acquire (something) by marriagemarry money
- to unite closely or intimately
- (tr sometimes foll by up) to fit together or align (two things); join
- (tr) nautical
- to match up (the strands) of unlaid ropes before splicing
- to seize (two ropes) together at intervals along their lengths
Word Origin
marry2
- archaic an exclamation of surprise, anger, etc
Word Origin
Word Origin and History for married
adj.
"formally wedded," late 14c., from past participle of marry (v.).
marry
v.
c.1300, "to give (offspring) in marriage," from Old French marier "to get married; to marry off, give in marriage; to bring together in marriage," from Latin maritare "to wed, marry, give in marriage" (source of Italian maritare, Spanish and Portuguese maridar), from maritus (n.) "married man, husband," of uncertain origin, originally a past participle, perhaps ultimately from "provided with a *mari," a young woman, from PIE root *mari- "young wife, young woman," akin to *meryo- "young man" (cf. Sanskrit marya- "young man, suitor").
Meaning "to get married, join (with someone) in matrimony" is early 14c. in English, as is that of "to take in marriage." Said from 1520s of the priest, etc., who performs the rite. Figurative use from early 15c. Related: Married; marrying. Phrase the marrying kind, describing one inclined toward marriage and almost always used with a negative, is attested by 1824, probably short for marrying kind of men, which is from a popular 1756 essay by Chesterfield.
In some Indo-European languages there were distinct "marry" verbs for men and women, though some of these have become generalized. Cf. Latin ducere uxorem (of men), literally "to lead a wife;" nubere (of women), perhaps originally "to veil" [Buck]. Also cf. Old Norse kvangask (of men) from kvan "wife" (cf. quean), so "take a wife;" giptask (of women), from gipta, a specialized use of "to give" (cf. gift (n.)) so "to be given."
marry
interj.
a common oath in the Middle Ages, mid-14c., now obsolete, a corruption of the name of the Virgin Mary.