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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

/ ˈæɪ /

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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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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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As he told me in 2017, “I had my little girl, and I got married. All that trust, I built it, little by little with my family members,” he said.

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“And it married him to the animal in a way that felt really authentic.”

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“I was supposed to get married this year, now I have to find a new job or at least figure a way to survive,” one laid-off worker said on Reddit.

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Go get married to it, or ponder its existential desperation.

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They married in 2004 in her hometown of Fayetteville, Ark., and honeymooned in Africa.

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