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noun
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the state, condition, or relationship of being married; wedlock: a happy marriage. Synonyms: matrimony. Antonyms: single life, bachelorhood, spinsterhood, singleness; separation.
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the legal or religious ceremony that formalizes the decision of two people to live as a married couple, including the accompanying social festivities: to officiate at a marriage. Synonyms: nuptials, marriage ceremony, wedding. Antonyms: divorce, annulment.
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a relationship in which two people have pledged themselves to each other in the manner of a husband and wife, without legal sanction: trial marriage.
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EXPANDany close or intimate association or union: the marriage of words and music in a hit song. Synonyms: blend, merger, unity, oneness; alliance, confederation. Antonyms: separation, division, disunion, schism.
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a formal agreement between two companies or enterprises to combine operations, resources, etc., for mutual benefit; merger.
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a blending or matching of different elements or components: The new lipstick is a beautiful marriage of fragrance and texture.
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Cards. a meld of the king and queen of a suit, as in pinochle. Compare royal marriage.
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a piece of antique furniture assembled from components of two or more authentic pieces.
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COLLAPSEObsolete. the formal declaration or contract by which act a man and a woman join in wedlock.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English mariage < Old French, equivalent to mari(er) to marry1 + -age -age
1250–1300; Middle English mariage < Old French, equivalent to mari(er) to marry1 + -age -age
Related forms
non·mar·riage, noun
post·mar·riage, noun, adjective
pre·mar·riage, noun
pro·mar·riage, adjective
re·mar·riage, noun
Synonyms
3. Marriage, wedding, nuptials are terms for the ceremony uniting couples in wedlock. Marriage is the simple and usual term, without implications as to circumstances and without emotional connotations: to announce the marriage of a daughter. Wedding has rather strong emotional, even sentimental, connotations, and suggests the accompanying festivities, whether elaborate or simple: a beautiful wedding; a reception after the wedding. Nuptials is a formal and lofty word applied to the ceremony and attendant social events; it does not have emotional connotations but strongly implies surroundings characteristic of wealth, rank, pomp, and grandeur: royal nuptials. It appears frequently on newspaper society pages chiefly as a result of the attempt to avoid continual repetition of marriage and wedding.
3. Marriage, wedding, nuptials are terms for the ceremony uniting couples in wedlock. Marriage is the simple and usual term, without implications as to circumstances and without emotional connotations: to announce the marriage of a daughter. Wedding has rather strong emotional, even sentimental, connotations, and suggests the accompanying festivities, whether elaborate or simple: a beautiful wedding; a reception after the wedding. Nuptials is a formal and lofty word applied to the ceremony and attendant social events; it does not have emotional connotations but strongly implies surroundings characteristic of wealth, rank, pomp, and grandeur: royal nuptials. It appears frequently on newspaper society pages chiefly as a result of the attempt to avoid continual repetition of marriage and wedding.
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
marriage
c.1300, from O.Fr. mariage (12c.), from V.L. *maritaticum, from L. maritatus, pp. of maritatre "to wed, marry, give in marriage" (see marry).
EXPAND"When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition until death do them part." [G.B. Shaw]Marriage counselling first recorded 1945. Marriage bed, fig. of marital intercourse generally, is attested from 1590.
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