| NOUN | state | marital status | the condition of being married or unmarried |
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| Meaning | The condition of being married or unmarried. | |
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| Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
| Narrower | bachelorhood | The state of being an unmarried man |
| civil union | A voluntary union for life (or until divorce) of adult parties of the same sex | |
| marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock | The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined / joined for life (or until divorce) | |
| spinsterhood | The state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman) | |
| widowhood | The state of being a widow who has not remarried | |
| Broader | legal status | A status defined by law |
| Spanish | estado civil | |
| Catalan | estat civil | |
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