marital bed

1. 1.

   the relationship between wife and husband

   Synonymsmarital relationship

   Broaderkinship

Questions about marital bed

What does marital bed mean?

marital bed means "the relationship between wife and husband".

What is another word for marital bed?

Close synonyms include marital relationship. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is marital bed a common word?

marital bed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.