MATRIMONY | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of matrimony in English

(Definition of matrimony from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of matrimony

matrimony
And that's not to say video chat matrimony is all bad; plenty of perfectly legitimate marriages occur over web.
From Gizmodo
They congratulated us on our recent matrimony and mapped out a bunch of bars that we never stepped foot in.
In fact, neither one of us was very comfortable with this whole idea of matrimony at all.
From NPR
But apparently he sees matrimony differently than he did during his first marriage.
If there's truth to caricature, then call my joining the online matrimony network a modern-day leap onto a bandwagon of millennia-old social custom.
Our experiences, then, had left the two of us taxed, troubled, and decidedly suspicious of the joys of holy wedded matrimony.
From NPR
In a sense, the honeymoon is over, and now one has to get down and make the matrimony work.
But if the old rules are out, is holy matrimony now a 24-hour buffet of anything-goes debauchery?
If the state stopped granting marriage licenses altogether, making every union a civil union, the church would still have the sacrament of holy matrimony.
But he writes articles and leads panel discussions on the benefits of youthful matrimony.
From NPR
Matrimony, "chimes the author," rescued widows and was a kind of peace plan.
Whether you are engaged, newly married, or years along in wedded matrimony, it's never too late to re-think your words and upgrade your relationship, one conversation at a time.
Now, if a family-themed series does not include a wide variety of relationships outside of the once traditional definition of matrimony it is not considered realistic.
Given the obsolescence of traditional matrimony and the shortcomings of romance (for children, at any rate), it is easy to predict a slow death for marriage.
Marital health permits, while offering some protection to partners against venereal disease, could needlessly impede others from engaging in matrimony.
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Translations of matrimony

in Chinese (Traditional)
婚姻, 婚姻生活…
in Chinese (Simplified)
婚姻, 婚姻生活…
in Spanish
matrimonio…
in Portuguese
matrimônio…
in more languages
in Turkish
in French
in Dutch
in Czech
in Danish
in Indonesian
in Thai
in Vietnamese
in Polish
in Swedish
in Malay
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in Ukrainian
in Russian
evlilik, izdivaç…
mariage…
huwelijk…
stav manželský…
ægteskab…
perkawinan…
การแต่งงาน…
hôn nhân…
małżeństwo, stan małżeński…
äktenskap[et]…
perkahwinan…
die Ehe…
ekteskap…
подружнє життя, шлюб…
супружество, брак…
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