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married

American  
[mar-eed] / ˈmær id /

adjective

  1. united in wedlock; wedded.

    married couples.

  2. of or relating to marriage or married persons; connubial; conjugal.

    married happiness.

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

  4. interconnected or joined; united.

  5. (of a family name) acquired through marriage.

noun

  1. Usually marrieds. married couples or married people.

    young marrieds moving into their first home.
married British  
/ ˈmærɪd /

adjective

  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

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noun

  1. (usually plural) a married person (esp in the phrase young marrieds )

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Other Word Forms

  • marriedly adverb
  • unmarried adjective
  • well-married adjective

Etymology

Origin of married

Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; marry 1, -ed 2

Example Sentences

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"I just thought that it was really exciting. The dress is obviously not cursed, I'm happily married, as is the bride I bought it from," she joked.

From BBC

When she got married in 2014, she had debt from medical school.

From The Wall Street Journal

When that marriage ended, he married another British woman and they had two sons, Jacob and Aaron.

From BBC

She was a 23-year-old medical student, newly married and pregnant for the first time.

From The Wall Street Journal

Anthony never married, and she considered herself to some degree Stanton’s amanuensis, confiding to an intimate that she felt that her best work had been “making the way clear” for her friend.

From The Wall Street Journal

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