married couple

1. 1.

   two people who are married to each other

   “his second marriage was happier than the first”

   “a married couple without love”

   Synonymsmarriageman and wife

   Broaderfamily

   Narrowermixed marriage

Questions about married couple

What does married couple mean?

married couple means "two people who are married to each other".

What is another word for married couple?

Close synonyms include marriage, man and wife. 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 married couple a common word?

married couple 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.