married

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/ ˈmær id /

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adjective

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.

noun

Usually marrieds. married couples or married people: young marrieds moving into their first home.

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Origin of married

Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; see origin at marry¹, -ed²

OTHER WORDS FROM married

mar·ried·ly, adverbun·mar·ried, adjective, nounwell-married, adjective

Words nearby married

marriage encounter, marriage equality, marriage guidance, marriage of convenience, marriage portion, married, married print, Marriner, marron, marrons glacés, marrow

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How to use married in a sentence

I was shocked to realize that while it’s not legal to be a bigamist, it’s pretty easy to be legally married to two people in different states.
“People want to believe”: How Love Fraud builds an absorbing docuseries around a romantic con man|Alissa Wilkinson|September 4, 2020|Vox
You can see at a glance that she is married to Orlando Bloom, she’s 35 and worth $125 million, and so on.
This know-it-all AI learns by reading the entire web nonstop|Will Heaven|September 4, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Hallett is married to Millie Crotty and the two have lived in Rehoboth with their “fur babies,” Berlin, Indy, and Joey Macaroni, since 2019.
Queery: Kerry Hallett|Staff reports|September 2, 2020|Washington Blade
The other two charged are Andrew Badolato, a venture capitalist, and Timothy Shea, who is married to We Build The Wall’s chief financial officer.
Private Border Wall Fundraisers Have Been Arrested on Fraud Charges|by Perla Trevizo, Jeremy Schwartz and Lexi Churchill|August 20, 2020|ProPublica

John Gottman was a famous relationships researcher who looked at married couples and so on and came to the conclusion that a relationship will continue as a happy, satisfied marriage if there are five good things for every bad one.
Reasons to Be Cheerful (Ep. 417)|Stephen J. Dubner|May 7, 2020|Freakonomics
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 Over|Jay Michaelson|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It was the finest moment of my life in 1986 when I married him.
Fergie Dives Into Prince Andrew’s Sex Scandal|Tom Sykes|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
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 Over|Jay Michaelson|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Who cares of Barack Hussein Obama is president and gays are getting married?
The Evangelical Apocalypse Is All Your Fault|Jay Michaelson|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
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-Levitt|Melissa Leon|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
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 Clement
The 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 Conway
In 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 Clement
Sometimes it was a young girl, again a widow; but as often as not it was some interesting married woman.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
Will it ever dawn on Mrs. Dodd's mind, that parsons, even married parsons, are but men?
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills

British Dictionary definitions for married

married

/ (ˈmærɪd) /

adjective

having a husband or wife

joined in marriagea married couple

of or involving marriage or married persons

closely or intimately united

noun

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

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