unmarried
Britishadjective
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not married
an unmarried mother
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films denoting a print of a cinematograph film in which the picture and sound recordings are on separate reels
Example Sentences
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A 38-year-old unmarried man who has worked in a bookstore for the last 20 years, he is decidedly a creature of habit.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
Your friend must be unmarried when she applies, unless she remarried after age 60, in which case she can still receive survivor benefits.
From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026
Elsewhere, unmarried people generally have to be on the title of a property to have an automatic claim to it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
Meanwhile, the proportion of families made up of a married couple with or without children has fallen as other family types, including unmarried couples, civil partners and single parents become more common.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
In Calcutta, Ashima will live with her younger brother, Rana, and his wife, and their two grown, as yet unmarried daughters, in a spacious flat in Salt Lake.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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