2syllables
marriage
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Definitions ofmarriage
1noun
- The state of being married.
Example: "You should enter marriage for love."
- A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, and/or religious rights and responsibilities.
- A homosexual relationship between male prisoners.
- A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed.
Example: "You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe."
- A close union.
- A joining of two parts.
- A king and a queen, when held as a hand in Texas hold 'em or melded in pinochle.
- In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value.
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