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n. A marriage (union) of two people planned by someone other than the two people who are united in it.
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Arranged marriage is a type of marital union where the bride and groom are selected by their families.
The young-adult novel (Un)Arranged Marriage is the first novel by the British-Indian author Bali Rai (born 1971 in Leicester, England).
Usage examples of "arranged marriage".
I am not a boy running away from his duty, nor even a man fleeing an arranged marriage.
He had entered into an arranged marriage to avoid the complications of love.
But my match was an arranged marriage, and Jacob was a stranger to me when we began as man and wife.
I'm dreadfully sorry I haven't learned how, but it doesn't seem necessary for an arranged marriage.
It is rare to be in love with one's husband these days, especially an arranged marriage.
He also harbored a romantic, albeit unrealistic wish for the emotional intimacy that an arranged marriage might, but wouldn't necessarily bring.
Leto knew that theirs had been an arranged marriage, a bargain struck among the Houses of the Landsraad to fulfill the requirements of the important families.
Yresk had been with Castle Caladan ever since the arranged marriage of Leto's parents .
I knew he plunged himself into danger, that they both took foolish chances, but my heart leaped at the thought that my lad might know love as well as an arranged marriage.
I knew he plunged himself into danger, that they both took foolish chances, but my heart leapt at the thought that my lad might know love as well as an arranged marriage.
Niobe could understand, even though her own arranged marriage had been a good one.
She was no longer the dutiful child who left her uncle's house for an arranged marriage.
After she had come into her title as the head of her line, she had done her duty and accepted an arranged marriage.