marriage
The state of being married.
A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, and/or religious rights and responsibilities.
The union of only two people, to the exclusion of all others.
"I have a patient right now whose marriage proved to be a tragedy. She wanted love, sexual gratification, children, and social prestige; but life blasted all her hopes. Her husband didn't love her. He refused even to eat with her, and forced her to serve his meals in his room upstairs. She had no children, no social standing. She went insane; and, in her imagination, she divorced her husband and resumed her maiden name. She now believes she has married into the English aristocracy, and she insists on being called Lady Smith.
The union of two people of opposite sex, to the exclusion of all others.
A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed.
(figuratively) A close union.
A joining of two parts.
(card games) A king and a queen, when held as a hand in some versions of poker or melded in pinochle.
(card games) In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value.
(prison slang) A homosexual relationship between male prisoners.
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