Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to marriage.
  • adjective Archaic Of or relating to a husband.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to a husband, or to marriage as it concerns the husband: as, marital rights or authority; marital devotion.
  • Hence Pertaining to or of the nature of marriage; matrimonial; connubial.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective archaic Of or pertaining to a husband.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to marriage; matrimonial.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Pertaining to marriage.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to the state of marriage

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin marītālis, from marītus, married.]

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Latin maritalis

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Examples

  • He uses the term "marital disruption" because one of his main points is that the official "divorce rate" does not account for the number of households in which one spouse deserted the family.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jr. Robert Hughes 2011

  • While the term marital property can seem quite simple, it is a complex process and forces parties to account and document every penny that was spent in order to prove whether the property is marital or separate.

    AskMen.com - HOME PAGE 2010

  • I was reading in a magazine, it's what they call marital rape.

    CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2008 2008

  • My father wants me to believe that it is exactly her obsession with being in control that has led them to what he calls their marital apocalypse.

    Jade V.C. Andrews® 1999

  • My father wants me to believe that it is exactly her obsession with being in control that has led them to what he calls their marital apocalypse.

    Star V. C. Andrews 1999

  • My father wants me to believe that it is exactly her obsession with being in control that has led them to what he calls their marital apocalypse.

    Jade V.C. Andrews® 1999

  • My father wants me to believe that it is exactly her obsession with being in control that has led them to what he calls their marital apocalypse.

    Jade V.C. Andrews® 1999

  • My father wants me to believe that it is exactly her obsession with being in control that has led them to what he calls their marital apocalypse.

    Jade V.C. Andrews® 1999

  • My father wants me to believe that it is exactly her obsession with being in control that has led them to what he calls their marital apocalypse.

    Star V. C. Andrews 1999

  • It is simply a question of a group of men and a group of women who may lawfully have what we call marital relations.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

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