married
/ˈmarɪd
/adjective
1(Of two people) united in marriage: a married couple...
- Studies of couple interventions have emphasized married couples as the research participants and intended consumers.
- The couple has been married two years, and their biggest challenge is staying on track while anticipating major life changes.
- And in a deposition, she said she would not perform the procedure on a legally married gay couple.
1.1(Of a person) having a husband or wife: a happily married man...
- He lives behind his wife and a married daughter.
- The objector said spouse is a term widely recognized in Georgia as applying only to one's legally married husband or wife.
- The wives of married troops were also commonly involved with other soldiers, civilians or slave labourers.
1.2Relating to marriage: married life...
- The media will be waiting to see how the couple interact in their married life.
- And while everyone around wished the couple a happy married life, one of the guests decided to be a little cheeky.
- The couple seemed destined for married bliss when they wed 32 years but then Janet's mother, Marjorie, moved in.
Synonyms
marital, matrimonial, connubial, conjugal, nuptial, spousal
1.3Closely linked: in the seventeenth century science was still married to religion...
- It must be said however, that materialism as a philosophy is largely developing through science, while idealism is sort of married to religion.
- But his passion for science is only fully manifested when it is married to religion.
- In previous instances when hi-tech visuals have been so closely married to music, it's usually been of the electronica type.
plural noun (marrieds)
Married people: we were young marrieds during World War Two...
- We faced a 200 mile drive to South Devon for what would be a glorious, sunsoaked honeymoon, doing the tedious lovey-dovey things that young marrieds like us do.
- I'd ring on Saturday morning, when many young marrieds are out watching their children play soccer, cricket or basketball, and most young singles are hungover and off the hook.
- But they are more compatible than most young marrieds.
Rhymes
- blood blister
- blood boat
- blood-boltered
- blood-book
- blood boosting
- blood-borne
- blood brother
- blood-brotherhood
- blood bulk
- blood cell
- blood-chilling
- blood chit
- blood cholesterol
- bloodclaat
- blood clot
- blood clotting
- blood-conscious
- blood coral
- blood corpuscle
- blood count
- blood culture
- blood-curdler
- blood-curdling
- blood diamond
- blood disease