marry
VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (2)married, marries, marrying
- take in marriage; marriedSynonyms: get marriedwedconjoinhook up withget hitched withespouseMore general unite, unifyMore specific remarry, intermarry, inmarry, wive, mismarrySimilar wed, cuff
- perform a marriage ceremony“The minister married us on Saturday”“We were wed the following week”“The couple got spliced on Hawaii”Synonyms: wedtiespliceMore general officiateMore specific solemnize, solemniseSimilar get married, wed
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Translations
Verb to take a husband or wife
- Spanish
- casarse
- French
- épouser
- German
- heiraten
- Italian
- sposare
- Portuguese
- casar
- Turkish
- evlenmek
- Russian
- вступа́ть в брак vstupátʹ v brak
- Arabic
- تَزَوَّجَ tazawwaja
- Chinese
- 结婚 jiéhūn
- Japanese
- 結婚する kekkon suru
17 more languages
- Dutch
- trouwen
- Polish
- wyjść za mąż
- Greek
- παντρεύομαι pantrévomai
- Korean
- 결혼하다 gyeolhonhada
- Indonesian
- menikahi
- Vietnamese
- kết hôn
- Hungarian
- megnősül
- Portuguese (PT)
- casar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 嫁 jià
- Albanian
- martohem
- Esperanto
- edziĝi
- Estonian
- abielluma
- Finnish
- avioitua
- Hebrew
- הִתְחַתֵּן hitkhatén
- Kurdish
- zewicîn
- Latvian
- precēt
- Welsh
- priodi
Verb to be joined in marriage
- German
- heiraten
- Italian
- sposarsi
- Portuguese
- casar
- Russian
- пожени́ться poženítʹsja
- Arabic
- تَزَوَّجَ tazawwaja
- Chinese
- 结婚 jiéhūn
- Dutch
- trouwen
- Greek
- παντρεύομαι pantrévomai
- Korean
- 결혼하다 gyeolhonhada
- Vietnamese
- cưới
6 more languages
- Portuguese (PT)
- casar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 結婚 jiéhūn
- Finnish
- mennä naimisiin
- Romanian
- căsători
- Scottish Gaelic
- pòs
- Yiddish
- חתונה האָבן khasene hobn
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. marien, F. marier, L. maritare, fr. maritus husband, fr. mas, maris, a male. See Male, and cf. Maritral.
1. To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place.
Tell him that he shall marry the couple himself.— John Gay
2. To join according to law, (a man) to a woman as his wife, or (a woman) to a man as her husband. See the Note to def. 4.
A woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth husband, and being now a widow, was prohibited to marry.— John Evelyn
3. To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife.
Maecenas took the liberty to tell him [Augustus] that he must either marry his daughter [Julia] to Agrippa, or take away his life.— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
4. To take for husband or wife. See the Note below.
☞ We say, a man is married to or marries a woman; or, a woman is married to or marries a man. Both of these uses are equally well authorized; but given in marriage is said only of the woman.
They got him [the Duke of Monmouth]... to declare in writing, that the last king [Charles II.] told him he was never married to his mother.— Bp. William Lloyd
5. Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation.
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you.— Jer. iii. 14.
To marry ropes. Nautical (a) To place two ropes along side of each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time. (b) To join two ropes end to end so that both will pass through a block. Phila. 1881. Hamersly's Naval Encyclopaedia
To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
I will, therefore, that the younger women marry.— 1 Tim. v. 14.
Marrying man, a man disposed to marry. colloquial
Indeed! in truth! — a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary. obsolete William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54