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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
marry
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a married couple
▪ Under the new rules, a married couple will now receive £20 a week extra.
a newly married couple (=having married not long ago)
▪ Many newly married couples cannot afford to buy their own homes.
engaged to be married
▪ She is engaged to be married.
happily married
▪ I’m a happily married man.
married quarters (=houses where soldiers live with their wives)
▪ Most of the officers live in married quarters.
marry/get married in a church
▪ I’d like to get married in a church.
marry/get married in a church
▪ I’d like to get married in a church.
marrying beneath (=marrying someone who was not good enough)
▪ His mother felt he was marrying beneath him .
the marrying age
▪ She was 28 – long past the usual marrying age.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
▪ What you've got to do is to get her to marry again.
▪ The rabbi told Minna that she would have to wait ninety days before she could be married again.
▪ I shouldn't think Helen would want to get married again.
▪ Eventually he married again, this time the daughter of a professor.
▪ Then she married again, had three more sons - and began picking on her oldest.
▪ Of course there was always the chance she could marry again.
▪ But, with the help of the changing law, a divorce is eventually granted, which allows him to marry again.
happily
▪ He has grown-up children from that, and is now happily married for a second time with a young son, Jamie.
▪ Both single people and unhappily married people report poorer health than peo-ple who are happily married or partnered.
▪ The catch is these two are more or less happily married -- to other people.
▪ This struck me as one of those existential moments in the life of a happily married woman.
▪ He was a phys ed teacher, and happily married, with two young daughters.
▪ He was a happily married man.
▪ I think it made happily married men review their vows.
▪ When the princess saw him, she loved him too, and they were very happily married.
never
▪ I will never marry again, said Alix.
▪ He was never married and passed away in 1921.
▪ That's why I've never married.
▪ She never married or went anywhere even on her days off.
▪ Women who have never married are over-represented among the very elderly.
▪ I was convinced I would never have a meaningful date, never marry, never have children.
▪ She knew he'd never married.
▪ They are married, divorced, separated, widowed, and never married.
■ NOUN
child
▪ Yes, and why hadn't that occurred to her before - that he might be married with children?
▪ One parish had chosen him because he was unmarried but later wished he were married with children.
▪ And anyway, in other religions, priests married and had children.
▪ Alfred, a gang leader, had never been to college and was already married with a child on the way.
▪ He is married with three children and lives at Seaton Carew.
▪ I never thought I would find love or marry or have children.
▪ Some were married and had children.
couple
▪ They were a devoted couple, marrying after a teenage romance.
▪ Rachel dies of a mysterious illness before the couple can marry.
▪ The couple plan to marry next year.
▪ That meant taking Pre-Cana classes, a course of instruction for all couples who wanted to marry within the Church.
▪ The couple had been married nine years.
▪ None the less the young couple eventually married, which in the face of so much Glover resistance undoubtedly took some strength and resolve.
▪ For instance, if couples are not married they are asked not to share huts.
▪ The couple were formally married on 7 May at Chambery, and on 20 May made their ceremonial entry into Turin.
daughter
▪ The family will be celebrating again in June when one of his daughters gets married.
▪ Nick tossed three bags of gold through the kitchen window, and the three daughters married Soon after.
▪ His wife was dead, his two daughters raised and married, by the time Nina and Maria arrived in 1742.
▪ He died in 1574, leaving the property to his illegitimate daughter Hester, who married Lord Wooton.
▪ This daughter of an innkeeper married Constantius, the Roman general, in 270.
▪ He and his wife have a daughter married to a retained firefighter at Masham.
▪ A poor son is often forced to remain single, but a poor daughter can marry a rich man.
family
▪ Some people marry into families rather than commit themselves to a partner.
▪ Dorothy had always wanted to be married and have a family.
▪ Many left to marry and raise families.
▪ At times, he was saddened by never having married and raised a family of his own.
▪ And so when a son marries, his family may, with reason, mourn the dissolution of the way things were.
▪ He had never married and had no family or, at least, no family with whom he was in touch.
father
▪ He had heard of girls marrying a father substitute, but he had not met one before.
▪ The stepmother: Crude, rude, and obnoxious, she married the father after his wife passed away.
▪ By the time I turned seventeen, I had already been married to her father for two years.
▪ She married my father in 1932, in the depths of the Depression.
▪ Why shouldn't I marry their precious father?
▪ This is when they were first married, and my father went out and joined a golf club.
girl
▪ She's a sexy, cheerful, lively and uninhibited girl who married the wrong man.
▪ Percilla the Monkey Girl married the Alligator Man.
▪ Most girls just get married once a year and have another baby.
▪ The years passed quickly, and soon it was time for the little girl to marry.
▪ After Christmas, Mona, the one girl who had not married, came every weekend from Dublin.
▪ He had heard of girls marrying a father substitute, but he had not met one before.
▪ Without following this Hindu custom, it would be difficult to get the girls married.
husband
▪ He thought she would marry him when her husband died.
▪ Marion Witherspoon had married her late husband when she was twenty or twenty-one.
▪ Chatman had a tumor removed 12 years ago, six years before she married her husband, Dennis.&038;.
▪ Women are working more across the board, but the biggest increase has come from women married to higher-earning husbands.
▪ In 1973 she married her present husband, Taufik Kiemas, a well-connected businessman who owns a string of gas stations.
▪ I sold papers until I was 17, then I married my husband.
man
▪ He had gone for ever, to be replaced by the man she had really married, the ambitious and powerful Damian Flint.
▪ Maybe she came from a good family, which back home was the reason men married plain, buck-toothed women.
▪ Well-educated men and women are marrying each other, and these well-educated wives are carrying on working.
▪ And if that man is married and a Catholic, his political career will wither and die.
▪ She had married not just the man, she had married his job, and all that it involved.
▪ There are only sixty-five men for every 100 women in that group, and two thirds of the men are already married!
▪ There are three men who want to marry Bathsheba.
sister
▪ For Davey ended up marrying Bret's sister Diana.
▪ But he accepted all that when he married Corinne Roosevelt, sister of the future president.
▪ But when she turned him down he married her sister instead.
▪ But she married and my sister took her place.
▪ Forcing her into a loveless marriage the same way he's forcing you pair into marrying the Costello sisters.
▪ His younger brother James married Jessie's sister.
▪ Powell married Violet Packenham, sister of Lord Longford, in 1934 after a brief acquaintanceship.
son
▪ If I had married and had a son, I reasoned to myself, that boy would be about Tom's age.
▪ The toad: Ugly; he wanted Thumbelina to marry his son.
▪ An additional 22, 000 went to married sons and daughters and their spouses and children.
▪ The Wilders have one daughter about to get married and a son about to graduate from high school.
▪ She was kidnapped by an ugly toad who wanted her to marry his son.
wife
▪ Only twenty months later, John married his second wife Jennie.
▪ I married my wife in 1939.
▪ He had married his second wife Maud by no later than Michaelmas term 1245.
▪ A woman is in love with a married man, whose wife is in a permanent coma.
▪ A Circuit Judge since 1986, he married his wife Jane 37 years ago.
▪ He has been married to his wife, Janet, for more than 25 years and is the grandfather of three.
▪ The Marquess married his wife Becky in 1990 but he now lives apart from her and their son.
▪ Sir Hugo marries and his wife bears three girls, but Deronda holds no resentment toward them.
woman
▪ Well-educated men and women are marrying each other, and these well-educated wives are carrying on working.
▪ Emphatically for foreign women who marry local bachelors.
▪ Women are working more across the board, but the biggest increase has come from women married to higher-earning husbands.
▪ Helen Leeder, who took the class last year, said most students were young women either recently married or considering marriage.
▪ Disillusioned with the ruthlessly ambitious woman he had married, Richard had long ago turned his back on her.
▪ Many women are reluctant to marry.
▪ Seventy-four percent of women who were married in 1900-9 who reached two children went on to have a third or more.
▪ In other words, men tended to seek polygamy, whereas women strove to marry upward with men of high status.
years
▪ Heated tempers George and Helen have been married forty-five years.
▪ I married Lida when I was twenty-two, and we were married twenty-one years.
▪ We married two years later and Anthony and Georgina Andrews were the only showbusiness guests.
▪ We been married forty-three years now, and I knowed she was sick.
▪ The couple had been married nine years.
▪ He married Guilbert two years later.
▪ She was born when they had been married a few years.
▪ She served with him as co-president of the Dension University student government; they have been married for 39 years.
■ VERB
ask
▪ You ask me to marry you, perhaps first to seduce you.
▪ He told her what had happened and asked her to marry him.
▪ When I phoned Glyn, he asked me to marry him.
▪ Deronda calls on Mirah to ask her to marry him, laying his gloves and diamond ring on a table.
▪ I told Bill in Paris I was going to ask her to marry me.
▪ Soon enough, Ferdinand was professing his love and asking her to marry him.
▪ But when he had asked her to marry him, she had declined out of nothing more than pique.
▪ And when you asked if I was married, I lied to you.
decide
▪ A bachelor of nearly fifty decides to marry.
▪ They fall in love and decide to marry.
▪ Peter and I decided to get married straightaway.
▪ Still, she said, she would be nervous if her son decided to marry a Druitt girl.
▪ This had occurred due to these latter two persons deciding to marry one another and leave the profession.
▪ But the prince was kind, and Rapunzel decided she wanted to marry him.
▪ I asked him why he had decided to marry me.
▪ Ever since Polly had decided to get married, I had been making her a quilt.
get
▪ Depending upon the social circles in which the young adult moves there will be more or less pressure towards getting married.
▪ C., and Paris, to move to his home town of Perry, Ga., after getting married.
▪ The way I see it, we can't get married if I stay here.
▪ The beast turned back into a man and he and the woman got married.
▪ Then he had started on again about getting married and giving up her job.
▪ Isabel was thinking about getting married to some one else.
▪ Some people get married to the wrong person simply because they like the idea of the big day.
▪ I had hardly dated, and the next thing I knew I was getting married.
want
▪ I shouldn't think Helen would want to get married again.
▪ The mole: Handsome and well dressed as moles go; he wanted to marry Thumbelina.
▪ She certainly doesn't want to marry me.
▪ That meant taking Pre-Cana classes, a course of instruction for all couples who wanted to marry within the Church.
▪ There are three men who want to marry Bathsheba.
▪ Not that I want to get married, or do any of that conventional trip, you understand.
▪ But did he want to marry Elaine?
▪ He wanted to marry me this summer when it happened.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be married to sth
▪ Alison had shown enough respectable horror on discovering that he was married to prove she was a nice girl.
▪ As your Grace knows, Alexander was married to your Grace's late lamented sister, Margaret.
▪ He believed he had never married because he was married to his calling.
▪ It was like they were married to the Democrats, husband and wife, and nobody argues, but nobody talks.
▪ It wasn't as if she were married to him.
▪ She is married to Dave Walden, former chief of staff to Mayor Lanier.
▪ She was married to Milton Hayes, an Oceanic Lines purser, in 1929.
marry (into) money
▪ It was obvious to everybody in Rome that he had to marry money.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Do you think your sister will ever marry?
▪ He converted to Catholicism so he could marry her.
▪ I married young - it was a mistake.
▪ Mum and Dad fell in love on the cruise and were married by the ship's captain.
▪ Rabbi Feingold will marry us.
▪ The only reason Carla married Henry was because she was pregnant.
▪ The priest who married us forgot his lines during the ceremony.
▪ Will you marry me?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He married and divorced Ava Gardner.
▪ He told me to marry Victor Cousin.
▪ In 1684 he married Anne, daughter of the duke of Orleans, in a typical dynastic arrangement.
▪ Last month her parents decided that she must marry Tajammul, whom she knew but did not like.
▪ She said the chances of siblings marrying are minuscule if the number of sperm donations are kept low.
▪ They involve men and women who have previously married and whose relationships have broken down.
▪ When Miss Temple marries, Jane feels the necessity of trying something new and advertises for a position as a governess.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marry

Marry \Mar"ry\, interj. Indeed! in truth! -- a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary. [Obs.]
--Shak.

Marry

Marry \Mar"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Married; p. pr. & vb. n. Marrying.] [OE. marien, F. marier, L. maritare, fr. maritus husband, fr. mas, maris, a male. See Male, and cf. Maritral.]

  1. 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.

    Tell him that he shall marry the couple himself.
    --Gay.

  2. 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.

    A woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth husband, and being now a widow, was prohibited to marry.
    --Evelyn.

  3. To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife.

    M[ae]cenas took the liberty to tell him [Augustus] that he must either marry his daughter [Julia] to Agrippa, or take away his life.
    --Bacon.

  4. To take for husband or wife. See the Note below.

    Note: We say, a man is married to or marries a woman; or, a woman is married to or marries a man. Both of these uses are equally well authorized; but given in marriage is said only of the woman.

    They got him [the Duke of Monmouth] . . . to declare in writing, that the last king [Charles II.] told him he was never married to his mother.
    --Bp. Lloyd.

  5. Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you. --Jer. iii. 14. To marry ropes. (Naut.)

    1. To place two ropes along side of each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.

    2. To join two ropes end to end so that both will pass through a block.
      --Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Marry

Marry \Mar"ry\, v. i. To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.

I will, therefore, that the younger women marry.
--1 Tim. v. 14.

Marrying man, a man disposed to marry. [Colloq.]

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
marry

c.1300, "to give (offspring) in marriage," from Old French marier "to get married; to marry off, give in marriage; to bring together in marriage," from Latin maritare "to wed, marry, give in marriage" (source of Italian maritare, Spanish and Portuguese maridar), from maritus (n.) "married man, husband," of uncertain origin, originally a past participle, perhaps ultimately from "provided with a *mari," a young woman, from PIE root *mari- "young wife, young woman," akin to *meryo- "young man" (source of Sanskrit marya- "young man, suitor").\n

\nMeaning "to get married, join (with someone) in matrimony" is early 14c. in English, as is that of "to take in marriage." Said from 1520s of the priest, etc., who performs the rite. Figurative use from early 15c. Related: Married; marrying. Phrase the marrying kind, describing one inclined toward marriage and almost always used with a negative, is attested by 1824, probably short for marrying kind of men, which is from a popular 1756 essay by Chesterfield.\n

\nIn some Indo-European languages there were distinct "marry" verbs for men and women, though some of these have become generalized. Compare Latin ducere uxorem (of men), literally "to lead a wife;" nubere (of women), perhaps originally "to veil" [Buck]. Also compare Old Norse kvangask (of men) from kvan "wife" (see quean), so, "take a wife;" giptask (of women), from gipta, a specialized use of "to give" (see gift (n.)), so, "to be given."

marry

a common oath in the Middle Ages, mid-14c., now obsolete, a corruption of the name of the Virgin Mary.

Wiktionary
marry

Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. (from 14th c.) 2 (context transitive in passive English) To be joined (term: to) (someone) as spouse according to law or custom. (from 14th c.) 3 (context transitive English) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband. (from 14th c.) 4 (context transitive English) To take as husband or wife. (from 15th c.) 5 (context transitive figuratively English) To unite; to join together into a close union. (from 15th c.) 6 (context transitive English) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place. (from 16th c.) 7 (context nautical English) To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time. 8 (context nautical English) To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block. Etymology 2

interj. (context obsolete English) indeed!, in truth!; a term of asseveration.

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WordNet
marry

  1. v. take in marriage [syn: get married, wed, conjoin, hook up with, get hitched with, espouse]

  2. perform a marriage ceremony; "The minister married us on Saturday"; "We were wed the following week"; "The couple got spliced on Hawaii" [syn: wed, tie, splice]

  3. [also: married]

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Usage examples of "marry".

Indeed, the best accredited and most popular couples would take a start away from their companions and acquaintances, and ride ten miles or so to be married privately, and so escape all ceremony.

Initially Roger had been tempted by the idea of such affluence, but after making the acquaintance of the most undesirable Miss Grimbald, he had decided marrying her would be too great a sacrifice for him to endure beyond the measure of an hour.

Guizot justified himself by alleging that, inasmuch as the queen was married first, although her sister was married immediately after, the ceremonial was not celebrated at the same time!

CD, with the drag queens, the talk shows only serve to heighten the ambivalence about cross-dressing: Is the true CD a stable, middle-aged, married white-collar worker or is he a flamboyant, effeminate homosexual who takes female hormones and has breast implants?

Thinking that I might wish to settle in France, he left me at his departure, together with the papers establishing my identity, a letter promising, if he approved of my choice, 150,000 livres per annum from the day I was married.

The notion of Brother John was, that, having resolved to marry the maiden, he had naturally gone home to apprize his parents and to make the necessary preparations.

Khnumu seduced and married the two fairies of the neighbouring cataract--Anukit the constrainer, who compresses the Nile between its rocks at Philse and at Syene, and Satit the archeress, who shoots forth the current straight and swift as an arrow.

The artilleryman was very angry and vexed at that, and his love drew him so powerfully that he said that he wished to marry the slave-girl.

All the young debutantes this season, all the young men who do want to get married, their mamas and papas and other assorted escorts, and a few scoundrels like our sweet Jeremy whom you should avoid.

Essex, she and her parents and her elder sister, married now and living in Canada, and she went home regularly to Wendens Ambo, sometimes with Bruce, sometimes alone, although she was going to miss that for a while, as they had left only a week ago to drive to Switzerland.

She was on her way to be married when her party was ambushed by the slavers.

This time, he could not assuage his guilt by telling himself he was trying to marry her for her own good, and because she had no better option.

The younger Ballenger brother had been a rounder and a half, and he was married?

His and hers, for Vanni, if she remembered him at all, was probably living under the protection of a wealthy balletomane or even married to a dancer with hamstrings like hawsers and long hair.

We are to be married, here in London, as soon as the banns have been called.