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

noun

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

Other Words From

• married·ly adverb
• un·married adjective noun
• well-married adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of married¹

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

Example Sentences

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.

From Vox

You can see at a glance that she is married to Orlando Bloom, she’s 35 and worth $125 million, and so on.

From 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.

From 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.

From 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.

From Freakonomics

You can still get your license at the court—just not actually get married there.

From The Daily Beast

It was the finest moment of my life in 1986 when I married him.

From The Daily Beast

As of this afternoon, gay Floridians can get married in Dade County.

From The Daily Beast

Who cares of Barack Hussein Obama is president and gays are getting married?

From The Daily Beast

McCauley may have married beneath her station, but Gordon-Levitt has obsessive fans.

From The Daily Beast

Her eldest daughter married in America, and was well known as a modeller in wax in New York.

From Project Gutenberg

The Authorised Version has: “And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin.”

From Project Gutenberg

In 1856 she married Mesdag, who, rather late in life decided to follow the career of a painter.

From Project Gutenberg

Sometimes it was a young girl, again a widow; but as often as not it was some interesting married woman.

From Project Gutenberg

Will it ever dawn on Mrs. Dodd's mind, that parsons, even married parsons, are but men?

From Project Gutenberg