MARRIED COUPLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does married couple mean? 

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

1. two people who are married to each other

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARRIED COUPLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Two people who are married to each other

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

man and wife; marriage; married couple

Context example:

a married couple without love

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

family; family unit (primary social group; parents and children)

Meronyms (members of "married couple"):

better half; married person; mate; partner; spouse (a person's partner in marriage)

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

mixed marriage (marriage of two people from different races or different religions or different cultures)