English > marriage: 4 senses > noun 1, state| Meaning | The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined / joined for life (or until divorce). |
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| Example | "a long and happy marriage" |
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| Synonyms | matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock |
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| Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
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| Narrower | bigamy | Having two spouses at the same time |
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| common-law marriage | A marriage relationship created by agreement and cohabitation rather than by ceremony |
| cuckoldom | The state of a husband whose wife has committed adultery |
| endogamy, intermarriage, inmarriage | marriage within one's own tribe / tribe or group as required by custom or law |
| exogamy, intermarriage | marriage to a person belonging to a tribe / tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law |
| marriage of convenience | A marriage for expediency rather than love / love |
| misalliance | An unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage) |
| monandry | The state of having only one husband at a time / time |
| monogamy, monogamousness | Having only one spouse at a time / time |
| open marriage | A marriage in which each partner is free to enter into extraneous sexual relationships without guilt or jealousy from the other |
| polygamy | Having more than one spouse at a time / time |
| sigeh | A Shiite tradition of temporary marriage permitted in Iran that allows a couple to specify the terms of their relationship |
| Broader | marital status | The condition of being married or unmarried |
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| Spanish | connubio, enlace, matrimonio, unión |
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| Catalan | boda, connubi, enllaç, matrimoni, unió |
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| Adjectives | conjugal, connubial | of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband |
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| marital, matrimonial, married | of or relating to the state of marriage |
