MARRIED MAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does married man mean? 

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

1. a married man; a woman's partner in marriage

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARRIED MAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A married man; a woman's partner in marriage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

hubby; husband; married man

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

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

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

benedick; benedict (a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor))

cuckold (a man whose wife committed adultery)

family man (a man whose family is of major importance in his life)

house husband; househusband (a husband who keeps house while his wife earns the family income)

uxoricide (a husband who murders his wife)

 Context examples 

He was a married man, and without children; the very state to be wished for.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Are you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?

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

The clerk, being a married man, condescended to take an interest in the couple, who appeared to be shopping for their family.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

An old married man—quite good for nothing.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

You doen't ought—a married man like you—or what's as good—to take and hull away a day's work.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

John Straker, who is a married man, lived in a small villa about two hundred yards from the stables.

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

You have as good as said that I am a married man—as a married man you will shun me, keep out of my way: just now you have refused to kiss me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You are extremely obliging—and if I were not an old married man.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Don't I look like a married man and the head of a family?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Yes, so, sir," I rejoined: and yet not so; for you are a married man—or as good as a married man, and wed to one inferior to you—to one with whom you have no sympathy—whom I do not believe you truly love; for I have seen and heard you sneer at her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)