marriage

name

1. A surname

noun

Etymology: From Middle English mariage, from Old French mariage, from marier (“to marry”), from Latin marītō (“marry”, verb, literally “give in marriage”), from marītus (“lover”, “nuptial”), from mas (“male, masculine, of the male sex”). Equivalent to marry + -age. Doublet of maritage. Displaced native Old English sinsċipe.

1. The state of being married.

   “You should enter marriage for love.”

2. A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.

   “By his marriage to his two wives, Tapuwae quietly strengthened all of the pas of the Wairoa district, as many of them came under his control through these unions.”

   “One layman in Buddha's time decided to embrace celibacy and relinquished his marriage vows to his four wives. When he asked them what they wanted in terms of a settlement, one said, […]”

3. A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.

   “My grandparents' marriage lasted for forty years.”

   “Pat and Leslie's marriage to each other lasted forty years.”

4. A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.
5. A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed.

   “You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe.”

6. A close union.

   “And this marriage of poetry and history remained a solid relationship throughout the classical period.”

   “Above all, we will no longer have to feel qualms about the marriage of art and money. We will no longer have to wonder if it is possible to separate the esthetic value of an art work from its commercial value.”

7. A joining of two parts.
8. A king and a queen, when held as a hand in some versions of poker or melded in pinochle.
9. In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value.
10. A homosexual relationship between male prisoners.