marriageable

1. 1.

   of girls or women who are eligible to marry

   Synonymsnubile

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Questions about marriageable

What does marriageable mean?

marriageable means "of girls or women who are eligible to marry".

How many syllables are in marriageable?

marriageable has 6 syllables: mar-ri-a-ge-a-ble. The stress falls on "ge".

What is another word for marriageable?

Close synonyms include nubile. 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 marriageable a common word?

marriageable is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.