marriageable
/ˈmarɪdʒəb(ə)l
/adjective
Fit or suitable for marriage, especially in being wealthy or of the right age: marriageable girls...
- She has become the noble and marriageable daughter of a wealthy feudal lord.
- Women had long hair, but marriageable girls wore their hair twisted up into large whorls on either side of their heads.
- The imbalance in the number of girls and boys of marriageable age is not the only cause of these social changes, and it will not persist for long.
Derivatives
marriageability
- A single untoward remark or social misstep by any family member can sink a prospective marriage; failed negotiations in turn put the family reputation - and thus the marriageability of every family member - at risk.
- Circumcision is a way of protecting propriety, morality, and marriageability.
- They kept it quiet because they thought it could affect the marriageability of other women in the family.
- satrapy
- satsang
- satsuma
- sattva
- sattvic
- saturable
- saturant
- saturate
- saturated
- saturated fat
- saturation
- saturation diving
- saturation point
- Saturday
- Saturdaying
- Saturday night
- Saturday nighter
- Saturday night palsy
- Saturday night paralysis
- Saturday-night pistol
- Saturday night soldier
- Saturday night special
- Saturday penny
- Saturday Sabbath
- Saturday soldier