noun
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A married person.
adjective
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In a state of marriage; having a wife or a husband.
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Showing commitment or devotion normally reserved for a spouse
example
married to one's work.
verb
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To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
example
Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry.
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(in passive) To be joined to (someone) as spouse according to law or custom.
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His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailor's apprentice.
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To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.
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He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.
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To take as husband or wife.
example
In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.
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To unite; to join together into a close union.
example
The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results.
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To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place.
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A justice of the peace will marry Jones and Smith.
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To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
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To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.
Examples of married in a Sentence
He married and decided to stay there.
He had started the clinic shortly after they were married, so his dream was barely being realized.
But we're married - and have been for a long time.
Young ladies, married and unmarried, liked him because without making love to any of them, he was equally amiable to all, especially after supper.
She had nearly married a man just like her father.
They had been married almost five years, so... that meant the baby was conceived long before they met - about the time he and Tessa were going to get married.
They married a month later at a small church in Bartlesville and Adrienne moved to the farm.
When they got married, there were no children to consider - not even the likelihood.
All this happened before they were married - before they met.
Such a house my father built after the Civil War, and when he married my mother they went to live in it.
Aunt Paulette, (we all called her Aunt Paulie) married a real estate agent and moved to Arkansas.
Never the less he and Martha have four married years under their belts and are expecting their first child.
Señor Medena married my mother when I was a baby.
She has a brother; I think you know him, he married Lise Meinen lately.
How stupid you men all are not to have married her!
It was a long time back, before they were married.
If he treats me differently than others, I'm sure it's because we are married.
I wanted you to tell me that wasn't your sole reason for wanting to get married.
Besides, it was time to replace some of the things she'd been wearing since before they were married.
Why don't we just get married?
Now all I want to know, is when are you getting married?
I thought you two were getting married.
If you'll think back, my message was that spending a few nights together wasn't a good reason to get married.
I hadn't even known he was married and now he was shinnying out on a skinny limb on my behalf.
Now I'm afraid it's married life.
He explained it all after we were married.
Randy Byrne was joyously married with mother Cynthia in proud attendance, attired in her Radisson original dress.
But you don't suppose I'm going to get you married at once?
But I thought when people got married...
Carmen, remember what you said to me before we married?
She was the one who had insisted on waiting until they were married.
In fact, at the party he had spent an unnecessary amount of time with the woman he almost married – and hadn't even introduced her.
But I felt it for you before we got married.
I don't know if he's married.
Remembering his kiss yesterday, she doubted if he was still married.
I'm going to adopt her as soon as Julie and I get married.
Don't give me that 'happily married' bullshit.
They were married and we were all starting a good life together.
By this time she was married to Bill Radisson and wanted nothing to do with Mulligan.
If he'd met Carmen any later, she probably would have been married to Josh.
Are you ever sorry you got married?
Have I ever told you how much I enjoy being married to you?
How can you be shy after being married so long?
Exactly. How long have you been married?
Why, our mothers used to be married at twelve or thirteen.
There's Uncle Shinshin's brother has married his first cousin.
The files had been there all along and he had given her passwords and permission to look at them since they were first married.
It's almost like your married.
He's engaged to be married.
Randy quickly added, "We're going to get married."