marriage
/ˈmæɹɪd͡ʒ/ sustantivo B1En español: matrimonio, coyunda, connubio, boda
- The state of being married. · You should enter marriage for love.
- A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.
- The union of only two people, to the exclusion of all others. · My grandparents' marriage lasted for forty years.· Pat and Leslie's marriage to each other lasted forty years.
- The union of two people of opposite sex, to the exclusion of all others.
- A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed. · You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe.
- A close union.
- A joining of two parts.
- A king and a queen, when held as a hand in some versions of poker or melded in pinochle.
Plural marriages
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
She often tried to provoke Darcy into disliking her guest, by talking of their supposed marriage, and planning his happiness in such an alliance.
Bennet on having so fine a family of daughters, said he had heard much of their beauty, but that, in this instance, fame had fallen short of the truth; and added, that he did not doubt her seeing them all in due time well disposed of in marriage.
The idea soon reached to conviction, as she observed his increasing civilities towards herself, and heard his frequent attempt at a compliment on her wit and vivacity; and though more astonished than gratified herself by this effect of her charms, it was not long before her mother gave her to understand that the probability of their marriage was exceedingly agreeable to _her_.
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