noun. The state of being married; matrimony.

idiom. (out of wedlock) Of parents not legally married to each other.

To unite in marriage; marry.

noun. Marriage; matrimony; the married state; the vows and sacrament of marriage. Sometimes used attributively.

noun. A wife.

noun. Synonyms Matrimony, Wedding, etc. See marriage.

transitive verb. To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed.

noun. The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony.

noun. A wife; a married woman.

noun. The state of being married; matrimony.

noun. the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

"In fact — ­figure it out for yourself — ­they were actually married, by a Church of England dominie, and living in wedlock, about the same moment that you were squalling your first post-birth squalls in this world."

to break wedlock  

out of wedlock  

marital status  

bigamy  common-law marriage  cuckoldom  endogamy  exogamy  

deadlock  

circumambulation  matrimony  sepulture  unction  vocation  

a world-without-end bargain  alliance  bed  bond of matrimony  bridebed