the state of being husband and wife or the mutual relation it represents
Marriage is so unlike anything else. There is something awful in the nearness it brings — George Eliot
the institution whereby a man and a woman are joined in a special kind of social and legal dependence
an act or the rite of marrying; esp the wedding ceremony
an intimate or close union
a marriage of minds
the marriage of lyrics and melody
marriageable adj
[Middle English mariage from early French mariage from marier to marry]