marriage

Roget category 903

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.3. Sympathetic affections
›› 6.3.1. Social affections

#903. Marriage

noun

marriage, matrimony, wedlock, union, intermarriage, miscegenation, the bonds of marriage, vinculum matrimonii [Lat.], nuptial tie.
married state, coverture, bed, cohabitation.
match — betrothment etc. (promise) 768 — wedding, nuptials, Hymen, bridal — espousals, spousals — leading to the altar etc. v. — nuptial benediction, epithalamium^† — sealing.
torch of Hymen, temple of Hymen — hymeneal altar — honeymoon.
bridesmaid, bridesman^†, best man — bride, bridegroom.
married man, married woman, married couple — neogamist^†, Benedict, partner, spouse, mate, yokemate^† — husband, man, consort, baron — old man, good man — wife of one's bosom — helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare, old woman, old lady, good wife, goodwife.
feme [Fr.], feme coverte [Fr.] — squaw, lady — matron, matronage, matronhood^† — man and wife — wedded pair, Darby and Joan — spiritual wife.
monogamy, bigamy, digamy^†, deuterogamy^†, trigamy^†, polygamy — mormonism — levirate^† — spiritual wifery^†, spiritual wifeism^† — polyandrism^† — Turk, bluebeard^†.
unlawful marriage, left-handed marriage, morganatic marriage, ill-assorted marriage — mesalliance — mariage de convenance [Fr.].
marriage broker — matrimonial agency, matrimonial agent, matrimonial bureau, matchmaker — schatchen [G.].

verb

marry, wive, take to oneself a wife — be married, be spliced — go off, pair off — wed, espouse, get hitched [U.S.], lead to the hymeneal altar, take 'for better for worse'," give one's hand to, bestow one's hand upon.
marry, join, handfast^† — couple etc. (unit) 43 — tie the nuptial knot — give away, give away in marriage — seal — ally, affiance — betroth etc. (promise) 768 — publish the banns, bid the banns — be asked in church.

adjective

married etc. v. — one, one bone and one flesh.
marriageable, nubile.
engaged, betrothed, affianced.
matrimonial, marital, conjugal, connubial, wedded — nuptial, hymeneal, spousal, bridal.

phrase

the gray mare the better horse — a world-without-end bargain" [Love's Labor's Lost]; marriages are made in Heaven" [Tennyson]; render me worthy of this noble wife" [Julius Caesar]; si qua voles apte nubere nube pari [Lat.] [Ovid].

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