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Marriage   /mˈɛrɪdʒ/   Listen
noun
Marriage  n.  
1.
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. "Marriage is honorable in all."
2.
The marriage vow or contract. (Obs.)
3.
A feast made on the occasion of a marriage. "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king which made a marriage for his son."
4.
Any intimate or close union.
5.
In pinochle, bézique, and similar games at cards, the combination of a king and queen of the same suit. If of the trump suit, it is called a royal marriage.
Marriage brokage.
(a)
The business of bringing about marriages.
(b)
The payment made or demanded for the procurement of a marriage.
Marriage favors, knots of white ribbons, or bunches of white flowers, worn at weddings.
Marriage settlement (Law), a settlement of property in view, and in consideration, of marriage.
Synonyms: Matrimony; wedlock; wedding; nuptials. Marriage, Matrimony, Wedlock. Marriage is properly the act which unites the two parties, and matrimony the state into which they enter. Marriage is, however, often used for the state as well as the act. Wedlock is the old Anglo-Saxon term for matrimony.





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"Marriage" Quotes from Famous Books



... year before some of the captured leaders of the Commune met their fate. Those condemned were shot at the Buttes of Satory,—an immense amphitheatre holding twenty thousand people, where the emperor on one of his fetes, in the early days of his marriage, gave a great free hippodrome performance, to the intense ...
— France in the Nineteenth Century • Elizabeth Latimer
... the Court had not proceeded so happily for Bach as heretofore, and in the year of his marriage he made a journey to Hamburg with the object of competing for the post of organist at the Jacobi-Kirche. His playing on this occasion excited the greatest admiration, though, as a matter of fact, this was not the first time he had awakened the enthusiasm ...
— Story-Lives of Great Musicians • Francis Jameson Rowbotham
... you my humble service. I see Yasodhara, the noble princess, Pine patiently away and spend in mourning Her life's best years of youth and happiness. She has been cruelly deserted, has Been widowed by Siddhattha for a whim. Give her to me in marriage, and I'll prove A better father than that runaway, A better father to your little grandson, A better ...
— The Buddha - A Drama in Five Acts and Four Interludes • Paul Carus
... the bed that had been his brother's marriage bed. The low white ceiling sagged and bulged above him. For three nights the room had been as if Nicky and Veronica had never gone from it. They had compelled him to think of them. They had lain where he lay, falling asleep ...
— The Tree of Heaven • May Sinclair
... and by degrees they did have an effect upon Mary Lowther. She learned to believe that it was probable that Captain Marrable should marry Miss Brownlow, and, of course, asked herself questions as to the effect such a marriage would have upon herself, which she answered more fully than she did those which were put to her by her aunt. Then there came to Parson John some papers, which required his signature, in reference to the disposal of a small ...
— The Vicar of Bullhampton • Anthony Trollope


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