proposal of marriage

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   an offer of marriage

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Questions about proposal of marriage

What does proposal of marriage mean?

proposal of marriage means "an offer of marriage".

What is another word for proposal of marriage?

Close synonyms include marriage proposal, marriage offer, proposal. 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 proposal of marriage a common word?

proposal of 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.