Marriage
['mærɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony; 'their marriage was conducted in the chapel'.
(noun.) two people who are married to each other; 'his second marriage was happier than the first'; 'a married couple without love'.
(noun.) the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); 'a long and happy marriage'; 'God bless this union'.
(noun.) a close and intimate union; 'the marriage of music and dance'; 'a marriage of ideas'.
Editor: Orville--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony.
(v. t.) The marriage vow or contract.
(v. t.) A feast made on the occasion of a marriage.
(v. t.) Any intimate or close union.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Nuptials, wedding, espousals, spousals, nuptial rites.[2]. Matrimony, wedlock.
Checker: Steve
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Nuptials, matrimony, espousals, wedding, wedlock
ANT:Celibacy, virginity
Typist: Miranda
Definition
n. the ceremony by which a man and woman become husband and wife: the union of a man and woman as husband and wife.—adj. Marr′iageable suitable or at a proper age for marriage.—ns. Marr′iageableness; Marr′iage-con′tract an agreement to be married: an agreement respecting property by persons about to marry.—n.pl. Marr′iage-fā′vours knots or decorations worn at a marriage.—n. Marr′iage-sett′lement an arrangement of property &c. before marriage by which something is secured to the wife or her children in case of her husband's death.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
For a woman to dream that she marries an old, decrepit man, wrinkled face and gray headed, denotes she will have a vast amount of trouble and sickness to encounter. If, while the ceremony is in progress, her lover passes, wearing black and looking at her in a reproachful way, she will be driven to desperation by the coldness and lack of sympathy of a friend. To dream of seeing a marriage, denotes high enjoyment, if the wedding guests attend in pleasing colors and are happy; if they are dressed in black or other somber hues, there will be mourning and sorrow in store for the dreamer. If you dream of contracting a marriage, you will have unpleasant news from the absent. If you are an attendant at a wedding, you will experience much pleasure from the thoughtfulness of loved ones, and business affairs will be unusually promising. To dream of any unfortunate occurrence in connection with a marriage, foretells distress, sickness, or death in your family. For a young woman to dream that she is a bride, and unhappy or indifferent, foretells disappointments in love, and probably her own sickness. She should be careful of her conduct, as enemies are near her. See Bride.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master a mistress and two slaves making in all two.
Editor: Lucius
Examples
- Marriage is a taming thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But practical sense told them that sex cannot be confined within marriage. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The marriage was scarcely in accord with the old man's wishes, for the bandmaster's pockets were as light as his occupation. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He was born in the tenth year of our marriage, just when I had given up all hope of being a father. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Your marriage was your own doing, not mine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- On account of your approaching marriage with her? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Surely, I would say, all men do not wear those shocking nightcaps; else all women's illusions had been destroyed on the first night of their marriage! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The marriage is fixed for the twenty-second of December. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Not a vestige of the entry which recorded the marriage of Sir Felix Glyde and Cecilia Jane Elster in the register of the church! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In the story of this passion, too, the development varies: sometimes it is the glorious marriage, sometimes frustration and final parting. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Some short time after my sister Sophia's marriage she received from Lord Deerhurst, half a year of the annuity he had made her. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Where affection is reciprocal and sincere, and minds are harmonious, marriage _must_ be happy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I don't know why I made a proposal of marriage to Miss Verinder. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Nothing was said of the master's marriage, and I saw no preparation going on for such an event. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The marriage is no misfortune in itself, she retorted with some little petulance. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The marriages of either were discussed; and their prospects in life canvassed with the greatest frankness and interest on both sides. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- See him busied at the work he likes best--making marriages. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And this lawful use of them seems likely to be often needed in the regulations of marriages and births. Plato. The Republic.
- In the man's problem, the growing impossibility of early marriages is directly related to the business situation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There shall be no beggar-marriages in my family. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was at the bottom of a page, and was for want of room compressed into a smaller space than that occupied by the marriages above. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Though their marriages are generally more fruitful than those of people of fashion, a smaller proportion of their children arrive at maturity. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In their marriages, they are exactly careful to choose such colours as will not make any disagreeable mixture in the breed. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We shall never give each other up; and you know that you have always objected to long courtships and late marriages. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Notwithstanding the great increase occasioned by such early marriages, there is a continual complaint of the scarcity of hands in North America. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Are all marriages unhappy? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mr. Shelby, I have taught my people that their marriages are as sacred as ours. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Men of his age married wives of her age every day--and experience had shown those marriages to be often the happiest ones. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Millions of marriages are unhappy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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