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adjective

united in wedlock; wedded: married couples.

of or pertaining to marriage or married persons; connubial; conjugal: married happiness.

(of an antique) created from components of two or more authentic pieces.

interconnected or joined; united.

(of a family name) acquired through marriage.

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noun

Usually, marrieds. married couples or married people: young marrieds moving into their first home.

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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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Origin:
1325–75; Middle English; see marry¹, -ed²

Related forms

mar·ried·ly, adverb

un·mar·ried, adjective, noun

well-mar·ried, adjective

Example Sentences

You're less likely to be included in the social life of married couples, who often dominate departments.

It is highly unlikely to result in anyone getting or staying married who wouldn't otherwise.

M's granddaughter, the child of his oldest married daughter.

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You're less likely to be included in the social life of married couples, who often dominate departments.

It is highly unlikely to result in anyone getting or staying married who wouldn't otherwise.

M's granddaughter, the child of his oldest married daughter.

Childhood photos reveal happiness levels later in married life.

She had a child with a married man, three more with another.

She was married to a rock star, so she knew how obnoxious fans could be.

People usually get married within five years after finishing college.

Very interesting that gay couples want to get married and straight couples who are married want to get divorced.

The critical difference is how your perception of commitment changes once you are married.

As chance would have it, she married the officer who liberated her.

Some cyber partners even end up leaving the virtual space to get married.

Married men do tend to earn more than unmarried men.

Divorced individuals use more resources than they did as married couples.

She courted eccentricity, was a confirmed contrarian, never married.

Which of course meant that, when each of them married someone else, you knew what was coming.

Most of the characters in those productions, though, were married.

Men with a particular variant of the gene scored lower than others on the bonding scale, and fewer of them were married.

Villagers rarely married anyone from outside their town.

Michelle, meanwhile, found herself married to another historian.

Someone is getting lucky but likely not a married bloke.

In the end, the golden haired ones married the princesses and reunited with their royal families.

My friend got married strictly for health insurance.

They were engaged a month later, and married soon after.

Describe a kimono for a married woman or a single woman.

The actual divorce rate is much lower-for college graduates married in.

He said women change the day they get married and get mean.

For global couples-born in different countries, married in a third, now working somewhere else and with.

Dodola is a girl who was married off at a young age, before being kidnapped and sold into slavery.

As a married couple, our quest to find two faculty positions in the same department has seemed to many readers to be a pipe.

So don't be afraid to ask about whether or not someone is married.

Three of the groups were patrilocal societies, societies where married couples move to the husband's village.

In the first, he gets married shortly after high school, buys a house.

Interestingly, this survey finds little difference between married and co-habiting fathers.

Although he married only once, many women were drawn to him.

However, during this time, she also got married and had the first of two children.

When they woke up the next morning, they were married and pregnant.

My parents still talk about the choice they regretted in this regard when they were first married.

The reason for the secrecy is that the participants, ranging from students to married men, are gay.

His voice turns gravelly as bawdy humor infuses the colorful tale of a salty dog long married to the sea and its adventures.

No one is entirely sure how many succeed, although recent surveys suggest married women are as likely to cheat as married men.

On the subject of married women, cultural tradition is strict.

He spent five years in college before dropping out, does not take vacations and has never married.

Being married to a gaming man is a bit of a turn off when it comes to gaming yourself.

If you are married to the idea of attending school on.

Many of these job-seekers married and started families while abroad.

They said that when women in this tribe get married they move to a new village.

Now married and working in marketing for a health care company, the young woman says she learned a valuable lesson:.

What they also can't believe is that the two of us are married to each other.

Married women wear wigs or kerchiefs to cover their hair.

Lot of times they were married to school teachers who would support them during the off-season.

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She married and had four daughters, one of whom died in infancy.

My children are both adults, both married and both fully educated with all of those expenses paid for.

One year later, the pair landed in a helicopter next to a lava flow and were married.

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verb (used with object)

to take in marriage: Susan married Ed.

to perform the marriage ceremonies for (two people); join in wedlock: The minister married Susan and Ed.

to give in marriage; arrange the marriage of (often followed by off): Her father wants to marry her to his friend's son. They want to marry off all their children before selling their big home.

to unite intimately: Common economic interests marry the two countries.

to take as an intimate life partner by a formal exchange of promises in the manner of a traditional marriage ceremony.

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to combine, connect, or join so as to make more efficient, attractive, or profitable: The latest cameras marry automatic and manual features. A recent merger marries two of the nation's largest corporations.

Nautical.

to lay together (the unlaid strands of two ropes) to be spliced.

to seize (two ropes) together end to end for use as a single line.

to seize (parallel ropes) together at intervals.

to cause (food, liquor, etc.) to blend with other ingredients: to marry malt whiskey with grain whiskey.

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verb (used without object)

to wed.

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(of two or more foods, wines, etc.) to combine suitably or agreeably; blend: This wine and the strong cheese just don't marry.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English marien < Old French marier < Latin marītāre to wed, derivative of marītus conjugal, akin to mās male (person)

Related forms

mar·ri·er, noun

non·mar·ry·ing, adjective

un·mar·ry·ing, adjective

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World English Dictionary

married (ˈmærɪd)

—*adj*
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

—n
5.	(usually plural) a married person (esp in the phrase young marrieds)

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Word Origin & History

marry

a common oath in the Middle Ages, c.1350, now obsolete, a corruption of the name of the Virgin Mary.

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