BETROTHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does betrothed mean? 

• BETROTHED (noun)
  The noun BETROTHED has 1 sense:

1. the person to whom you are engaged

  Familiarity information: BETROTHED used as a noun is very rare.

• BETROTHED (adjective)
  The adjective BETROTHED has 1 sense:

1. pledged to be married

  Familiarity information: BETROTHED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BETROTHED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The person to whom you are engaged

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("betrothed" is a kind of...):

lover (a person who loves someone or is loved by someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "betrothed"):

fiance; groom-to-be (a man who is engaged to be married)

bride-to-be; fiancee (a woman who is engaged to be married)

Derivation:

betrothed (pledged to be married)

• BETROTHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pledged to be married

Synonyms:

bespoken; betrothed

Context example:

the engaged couple

Similar:

attached; committed (associated in an exclusive sexual relationship)

Derivation:

betrothed (the person to whom you are engaged)

 Context examples 

I lingered there as long as four days, and was betrothed to them all; for it seemed shame to set one above her sisters, and might make ill blood in the family.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One day he said to her, “You have not yet paid me a visit, although we have been betrothed for some time.” “I do not know where your house is,” she answered.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I was in a flutter of pride and anxiety; pride in my dear little betrothed, and anxiety that Agnes should like her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A little later in the day he telephoned his sister's betrothed, and learned that that person didn't want anything to do with him in "any shape, manner, or form."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

See, then, my Jo—ah, the dear, funny little name—I had a wish to tell something the day I said goodbye in New York, but I thought the handsome friend was betrothed to thee, and so I spoke not.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“I thought,” said Alleyne, “that you were betrothed to some one at Christchurch.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Can you tell me,” asked the girl, “if my betrothed husband lives here?”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Instead, her eyes were fixed anxiously upon her betrothed, and Martin, following her gaze, saw spread on that worthy's asymmetrical features nothing but black and sullen disapproval.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was a thought of mine own, said he; for the sword was made by Thomas Wilson, the armorer, who is betrothed to my second daughter Margery.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thereupon she took her leave of her father, and rode away with them, and rode to the court of her former betrothed, whom she loved so dearly.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)