spousal relationship

Questions about spousal relationship

What does spousal relationship mean?

spousal relationship means "the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)".

What is another word for spousal relationship?

Close synonyms include marriage, matrimony, union, 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 spousal relationship a common word?

spousal relationship 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.