marriage
see also: Marriage
Etymology
Marriage
Proper noun Translations
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see also: Marriage
Etymology
From Middle English mariage, from Old French mariage, from marier, from Latin marītō, from marītus, from mas ("male, masculine, of the male sex").
Pronunciation Nounmarriage
- The state of being married. [from 14th c.]
- You should enter marriage for love.
- A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, and/or religious rights and responsibilities. [from 14th c.]
- 1944, Tiaki Hikawera Mitira, Takitimu, page 123:
- By his marriage to his two wives, Tapuwae quietly strengthened all of the pas of the Wairoa district, as many of them came under his control through these unions.
- 1990, John Stevens, Lust for enlightenment: Buddhism and sex:
- One layman in Buddha's time decided to embrace celibacy and relinquished his marriage vows to his four wives. When he asked them what they wanted in terms of a settlement, one said, […]
- 1995, Edith Deen, All of the women of the Bible, page 275:
- The account of the loss of the blessing of his father Isaac appears immediately after Esau's marriage to his Hittite wives.
- 2013, David Gilman, Master of War :
- "Now can we eat? Marriages are arranged for whatever purpose is suitable. All this talk of undying love and childbearing squirms in my stomach like a worm that demands feeding."
- 1944, Tiaki Hikawera Mitira, Takitimu, page 123:
- A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed. [from 14th c.]
- You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe.
- (figuratively) A close union. [from 15th c.]
- 2000, Edmund E. Jacobitti, “The Classical Heritage in Machiavelli's Histories”, in Vickie B. Sullivan, editor, The comedy and tragedy of Machiavelli: essays on the literary works, page 181:
- And this marriage of poetry and history remained a solid relationship throughout the classical period.
- 2006 August 9, Amy Scattergood, A wild dream in the wild, published in the Los Angeles Times, republished in 2009 in The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook: A Year in the Life of a Restaurant (by Michelle and Phillip Wojtowicz and Michael Gilson with Catherine Price), on the cover:
- But the food is real: a marriage of local ingredients and serious technique.
- A joining of two parts.
- (card games) A king and a queen, when held as a hand in some versions of poker or melded in pinochle.
- (card games) In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value.
- (prison slang) A homosexual relationship between male prisoners.
- French: mariage
- German: Ehe, Heirat
- Italian: matrimonio, nozze, sposalizio
- Portuguese: casamento, matrimónio (Portugal), matrimônio (Brazil)
- Russian: брак
- Spanish: matrimonio
- French: mariage
- German: Ehe
- Italian: matrimonio, nozze, sposalizio
- Portuguese: casamento
- Russian: брак
- Spanish: matrimonio
- French: mariage, noces
- German: Hochzeit, Heirat, Eheschließung, Trauung
- Italian: matrimonio, nozze, sposalizio
- Portuguese: casamento
- Russian: сва́дьба
- Spanish: boda, casamiento
- German: Verheiratung
- Italian: stato coniugale
- Portuguese: casamento
- Spanish: unión
- Russian: марья́ж
Marriage
Proper noun Translations
- French: Mariage
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