Matrimony

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  • noun. The act or state of being married; marriage.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The relation of husband and wife, with especial reference to what concerns the latter; the state of marriage or wedlock; nuptial union; conjugal partnership.
  • noun. The act of marriage; entrance upon the married state by a formal ceremony or procedure: as, the solemnization of matrimony by a clergyman. In the Roman Catholic Church matrimony is regarded as one of the sacraments.
  • noun. Wife.
  • noun. A game with cards.
  • noun. undefined
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock.
  • noun. A kind of game at cards played by several persons.
  • noun. a climbing thorny vine (Lycium barbarum) of the Potato family.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. marriage or the state of being married
  • noun. the marriage ceremony
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
  • noun. the ceremony or sacrament of marriage
    • Word Usage
    "After all, fidelity in matrimony is voluntary, too …/sarcasm off"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sacrament  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    patrimony  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Eucharist  baptism  capitulation  celibacy  marriage  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    a world-without-end bargain  alliance  baptism  bed  bond of matrimony  
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