MARRIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does married mean? 

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

1. a person who is married

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

• MARRIED (adjective)
  The adjective MARRIED has 2 senses:

1. joined in matrimony

2. of or relating to the state of marriage

  Familiarity information: MARRIED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARRIED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is married

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

we invited several young marrieds

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

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

marry (take in marriage)

• MARRIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Joined in matrimony

Context example:

a married couple

Similar:

joined; united (of or relating to two people who are married to each other)

mated (of or relating to a marriage partner)

ringed (wearing a wedding ring; lawfully married)

wed; wedded (having been taken in marriage)

Also:

mated (mated sexually)

Antonym:

unmarried (not married or related to the unmarried state)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to the state of marriage

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

marital; married; matrimonial

Context example:

married bliss

Pertainym:

marriage (the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce))

 Context examples 

I am sure I managed very well before we were married.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It wasn't at all the thing, I'm afraid, but the minute she was fairly married, Meg cried, "The first kiss for Marmee!" and turning, gave it with her heart on her lips.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Arthur was saying that he felt since then as if they two had been really married and that she was his wife in the sight of God.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As it is, not one of them is married.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I am about to be married.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not before he was married, I suppose?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I leave no one to regret me much: I have only a father; and he is lately married, and will not miss me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There was once a man called Frederick: he had a wife whose name was Catherine, and they had not long been married.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

If you are married, you are not likely to feel the turbulent atmosphere because a different part of the chart, the seventh house of marriage, covers your relationship.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I had now no heart, so that I lost all my love for the Munchkin girl, and did not care whether I married her or not.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)