Dictionary Entry
marry
marry is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, interjection, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place.
- 2transitive verb
To join according to law, (a man) to a woman as his wife, or (a woman) to a man as her husband. See the Note to def. 4.
- 3transitive verb
To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife.
- 4transitive verb
To take for husband or wife. See the Note below.
- 5transitive verb
Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation.
- 6intransitive verb
To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
- 7interjection
Indeed ! in truth ! -- a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary.
- 8verb
take in marriage
- 9verb
perform a marriage ceremony
"The minister married us on Saturday"
"We were wed the following week"
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