marriage

Other forms of marriage

plural

marriages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about marriage

What does marriage mean?

marriage means "the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in marriage?

marriage has 2 syllables: mar-riage. The stress falls on "mar". In IPA it is /ˈmɛɹɪdʒ/.

What is another word for marriage?

Close synonyms include matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock, married couple. 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 marriage a common word?

marriage is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with marriage?

2 words rhyme with marriage. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.