PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does proposal of marriage mean? 

• PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE (noun)
  The noun PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE has 1 sense:

1. an offer of marriage

  Familiarity information: PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An offer of marriage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

marriage offer; marriage proposal; proposal; proposal of marriage

Hypernyms ("proposal of marriage" is a kind of...):

offer; offering (something offered (as a proposal or bid))

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

question (an informal reference to a marriage proposal)

 Context examples 

Yes, quite a proposal of marriage; and a very good letter, at least she thought so.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

After half a moment's pause: And I should have been very much surprised had either of my daughters, on receiving a proposal of marriage at any time which might carry with it only half the eligibility of this, immediately and peremptorily, and without paying my opinion or my regard the compliment of any consultation, put a decided negative on it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She had heard, as soon as she got back to Mrs. Goddard's, that Mr. Martin had been there an hour before, and finding she was not at home, nor particularly expected, had left a little parcel for her from one of his sisters, and gone away; and on opening this parcel, she had actually found, besides the two songs which she had lent Elizabeth to copy, a letter to herself; and this letter was from him, from Mr. Martin, and contained a direct proposal of marriage.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)