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MARRIAGEABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does marriageable mean?
• MARRIAGEABLE (adjective)
The adjective MARRIAGEABLE has 1 sense:
1. of girls or women who are eligible to marry
Familiarity information: MARRIAGEABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of girls or women who are eligible to marry
Synonyms:
marriageable; nubile
Similar:
mature (having reached full natural growth or development)
Derivation:
marriageability (eligibility for marriage)
Context examples
When the girls are twelve years old, which among them is the marriageable age, their parents or guardians take them home, with great expressions of gratitude to the professors, and seldom without tears of the young lady and her companions.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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