Definitions

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

  • adjective Having a spouse.
  • adjective United in matrimony.
  • adjective Of or relating to the state of marriage.
  • adjective Acquired through marriage.
  • adjective Closely connected; united.
  • noun A married person.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • United in wedlock; having a husband or a wife: applied to persons: as, a married woman.
  • Constituted by marriage; of or pertaining to those who have been united in wedlock; conjugal; connubial.
  • Figuratively, intimately and inseparably joined or united; united as by the bonds of matrimony.

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

  • adjective Being in the state of matrimony; having a spouse; wedded; ; -- of one person.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to marriage; connubial.
  • adjective Wedded to each other; ; -- of two people.
  • adjective Joined to form one object; united.

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

  • adjective In a state of marriage; having a wife or a husband.
  • adjective figuratively Showing commitment or devotion normally reserved for a spouse
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of marry.
  • noun A married person.

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

  • adjective joined in matrimony
  • adjective of or relating to the state of marriage
  • noun a person who is married

Etymologies

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marry + -ed

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Examples

  • No, I am not the adopted son of lesbians, I have a biological mother who was married to my father, and I have a step-mother who was also married* to my father.

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  • No, I am not the adopted son of lesbians, I have a biological mother who was married to my father, and I have a step-mother who was also married* to my father.

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  • Mrs. Otway was coming back late to-night, and was to be married -- _married_, to-morrow morning in the Cathedral, to Major

    Good Old Anna Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907

  • CONNOTATIVE words, those that suggest more than they say, have more power than ordinary words -- "She _let_ herself be married" expresses more than "She _married_."

    The Art of Public Speaking Dale Carnagey 1906

  • And if they decide that they love each other and want to get married, _they will get married_.

    The Prince of Graustark George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • If it had not been for my pride and my folly, we should have been married by now -- _married_, Myra -- and far away.

    The Mistress of Shenstone 1891

  • _Pretty well married_, you know, implies 2000_l. _ a-year; and very well married, nothing under

    Tales and Novels — Volume 07 Maria Edgeworth 1808

  • As soon as have married a girl whom I had thought liable to be persuaded to drink, habitually, '_only_ a glass or two of wine at dinner, or so;' as soon as have _married_ such a girl, I would have taken a strumpet from the streets.

    Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. William Cobbett 1799

  • Allowing the name to have been De Benyon, you discover that one brother is not married, and that there are some papers belonging to him in the possession of an old woman who dies; and upon these slight grounds what would you attempt to establish? that because that person was known not to have married, therefore _he was married_ (for you are stated to have been born in wedlock): and because there is a packet of papers belonging to him in the possession of another party, that this packet of papers _must refer_ to you.

    Japhet, in Search of a Father Frederick Marryat 1820

  • Allowing the name to have been De Benyon, you discover that one brother is not married, and that there are some papers belonging to him in the possession of an old woman who dies; and upon these slight grounds what would you attempt to establish that because that person was known not to have married, therefore _he was married_ (for you are stated to have been born in wedlock); and because there is a packet of papers belonging to him in the possession of another party, that this packet of papers _must refer_ to you.

    Japhet in Search of a Father Frederick Marryat 1820

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  • In the rare/antique book business, used to describe a book whose parts come from different copies to form a whole. For example, the dustjacket from one copy may be "married" with a copy of the same book that has no dustjacket. In the case of multi-volume sets, a Vol. 1 might be “married�? to a Vol. 2 that was acquired separately, to form a complete set.

    February 22, 2007