marital status

1. 1.

   the condition of being married or unmarried

   Broaderlegal status

   Narrowermarriagecivil unionbachelorhoodspinsterhoodwidowhood

   law

Questions about marital status

What does marital status mean?

marital status means "the condition of being married or unmarried".

Is marital status a common word?

marital status 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.