Look up: marriage


  1. Marriage
    [play] Marriage (Женитьба, Zhenit`ba) is a play by the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol, which was first published in 1842. ==Plot summary== In the opening scene, a civil servant named Ivan Kuzmich Podkolyosin sits alone in his room smoking a pipe and contemplating marriage. He has hired...
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  2. Marriage
    [movie] Synthpop is a style of pop music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. ...
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  3. Marriage
    A socially approved sexual relationship between two individuals. Marriage almost always involves two persons of opposite sexes, but in some cultures types of homosexual marriage are tolerated. Marriage normally forms the basis of a family of procreation – that is, it is expected that the marr...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20212

  4. marriage
    [n] - a close and intimate union 2. [n] - state of being husband and wife 3. [n] - two people who are married to each other 4. [n] - the act of marrying
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=marriage

  5. Marriage
    a legally sanctioned relationship, involving economic cooperation as well as normative sexual activity and child-bearing, that people expect to be enduring
    Found op http://wps.pearsoned.co.uk/wps/media/objects/2143/2195136/glossary/glossary

  6. marriage
    All Roman men and women were expected to get married, and they could not marry more than one person at a time. For the first 500 years in Rome, divorce was unknown and therefore a great deal of care was taken selecting a marriage partner. Unfortunately divorce was quite common later on. June was the...
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  7. Marriage
    A man and woman legally living together as man and wife.
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  8. marriage
    A man and woman legally living together as husband and wife.
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  9. Marriage
    Mar'riage noun In bézique, penuchle, and similar games at cards, the combination of a king and queen of the same suit. If of the trump suit, it is called a royal marriage .
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/26

  10. Marriage
    Mar'riage noun [ Middle English mariage , French mariage . See Marry , transitive verb ] 1. The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband an...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/26

  11. marriage
    1. The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony. 'Marriage is honorable in all.' (Heb. Xiii. 4) ... 2. The marriage vow or contract. ... 3. A feast made on the occasion of a marriage. 'The kingdom of heaven is ...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?marriage

  12. marriage
    wedding noun the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony; `their marriage was conducted in the chapel`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=marriage



  1. marriage
    married couple noun two people who are married to each other; `his second marriage was happier than the first`; `a married couple without love`
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  2. marriage
    matrimony noun the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); `a long and happy marriage`; `God bless this union`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=marriage

  3. Marriage
    • (v. t.) A feast made on the occasion of a marriage. • (v. t.) The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony. • (v. t.) Any intimate or close union. • (v. t.) The marriage vow or contract. &...
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/marriage/

  4. marriage
    a legally and socially sanctioned union, usually between a man and a woman, that is regulated by laws, rules, customs, beliefs, and attitudes that ... [78 related articles]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/m/39

  5. marriage
    marriage 1. The social institution under which a man and woman establish their decision to live as husband and wife by legal commitments, religious ceremonies, etc. 2. The state, condition, or relationship of being married; wedlock; such as, a happy marriage. 3. The legal or religious ceremony that...
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2933/

  6. Marriage
    A wife was seen as being of high value, and was therefore, usually, carefully looked after. Early nomadic communities practised a form of marriage known as beena, in which a wife would own a tent of her own, within which she retains complete independence from her husband; this principle appears to ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage

  7. marriage
    1. state of being husband and wife
    2. two people who are married to each other
    3. the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony
    4. a close and intimate union

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  8. marriage
    marriage, socially sanctioned union that reproduces the family. In all societies the choice of partners is generally guided by rules of exogamy (the obligation to marry outside a group); some societies also have rules of endogamy (the obligation to marry within a group). These rules may be prescript...
    Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0831939.html

  9. Marriage
    A contract made in due form of law, by which a free man and a free woman reciprocally engage to live with each other during their joint lives, in the union which ought io exist between husband and wife. By the terms freeman and freewoman in this definition are meant, not only that they are free and ...
    Found op http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/m087.htm

  10. Marriage
    (n) Marriage is the entering of a formal relationship between a male and female with an intention to live as husband and wife as per the custom existing in the society or the law prevailing in the land
    Found op http://www.legal-explanations.com/definitions/marriage.htm

  11. marriage
    n. the joining of a male and female in matrimony by a person qualified by law to perform the ceremony (a minister, priest, judge, justice of the peace or some similar official), after having obtained a valid marriage license (which requires a blood test for venereal disease in about a third of the s...
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  12. marriage
    Type: Term Definitions: 1. gamophobia.
    Found op http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=68255

  13. marriage
    Legally or culturally sanctioned union of one man and one woman (monogamy); one man and two or more women (polygamy); one woman and two or more men (polyandry). The basis of marriage varies considerably in different societies (romantic love in the West; arranged marriages in some other societies), b...
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