outside marriage

1. 1.

   of unwed parents

   “he was born out of wedlock”

   Synonymsout of wedlock

Questions about outside marriage

What does outside marriage mean?

outside marriage means "of unwed parents".

What is another word for outside marriage?

Close synonyms include out of wedlock. 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 outside marriage a common word?

outside marriage 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.