different between marry vs elope

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mæ??/
• (General American) enPR: m?r??
  • (Mary–marry–merry distinction) IPA^(key): /?mæ?i/
  • (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /?m??i/, /?me?i/
• (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
• (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Rhymes: -æri
• Homophones: Mary, merry (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Hyphenation: mar?ry

Etymology 1

From Middle English marien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman, Old French marier, from Latin mar?t?re (“to wed”), from mar?tus (“husband, suitor”), from m?s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méryos (“young man”), same source as Sanskrit ???? (márya, “suitor, young man”). Compare its feminine derivatives: Welsh morwyn (“girl”), merch (“daughter”), Crimean Gothic marzus (“wedding”), Ancient Greek ?????? (meîrax, “boy; girl”), Lithuanian martì (“bride”), Avestan ????????????????????????????? (maⁱriia, “yeoman”).) Displaced native Old English h?wian.

Verb

marry (third-person singular simple present marries, present participle marrying, simple past and past participle married)

1. (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. [from 14th c.]

   Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry.

   • 1641, Evelyn, Diary, quoted in 1869 by Edward J. Wood in The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries, volume 2, page 241:

     Evelyn, in his "Diary," under date 1641, says that at Haerlem "they showed us a cottage where, they told us, dwelt a woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth husband, and, being now a widow, was prohibited to marry in future; […] "

   • 1755, The Holy Bible, both Old and New Testament, Digested, Illustrated, and Explained, second edition, page 59:

     But Esau, being now forty years of age, took a false step by marrying not only without his parents consent; but with two wives, daughters of the Hittites.

   • 1975 March 17, Marian Christy, "Suzy Chaffee, A Liberated Beauty", The Lebanon Daily News

     If and when Suzy does marry, it will be an open marriage because she's a believer in the "totality" of freedom.
2. (intransitive, with dual subject) To enter into marriage with one another.

   Jack and Jenny married soon after they met.

3. (transitive) To take as husband or wife. [from 15th c.]

   In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.

   His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailor's apprentice.

4. (transitive) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband. [from 14th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XXIII:

     The kyngdome of heven is lyke unto a certayne kinge, which maryed his sonne [...].

   He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.

5. (transitive) 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.]

   A justice of the peace will marry Jones and Smith.

   • 1715, John Gay, The What D'Ye Call It?

     Tell him that he shall marry the couple himself.
6. (intransitive, figuratively, of inanimate or abstract things) To join or connect. See also marry up.

   There's a big gap here. These two parts don't marry properly.

   I can't connect it, because the plug doesn't marry with the socket.

7. (transitive, figuratively) To unite; to join together into a close union. [from 15th c.]

   The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results.

   • 2006, Lisa C. Hickman, William Faulkner and Joan Williams: The Romance of Two Writers

     For Faulkner, these years marry professional triumphs and personal disappointments: the Nobel Prize for Literature and an increasingly unlifting depression.

8. (nautical) To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
9. (nautical) To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.

Synonyms

Antonyms

• divorce

Derived terms

Related terms

• marriage

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English Marie, referring to Mary, the Virgin Mary. Mid-14th century.

Interjection

marry!

1. (obsolete) indeed!, in truth!; a term of asseveration.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act I, Scene 2,^[1]

     I have chequed him for it, and the young lion repents; marry, not in ashes and sackcloth, but in new silk and old sack.

See also

• wed

References

Further reading

• Marriage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• ellope (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman aloper (“to abduct, run away”), from a Germanic source, either Middle Dutch ontlopen (“to run away”) or a predecessor thereof. Equivalent to and- +? lope as well as and- +? leap (these being doublets). Cognate with German entlaufen (“to escape”), Danish undløbe (“to run away”). More at lope.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??l??p/, /??l??p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??lo?p/, /??lo?p/
• Rhymes: -??p

Verb

elope (third-person singular simple present elopes, present participle eloping, simple past and past participle eloped)

1. (intransitive, of a married person) To run away from home with a paramour.
2. (intransitive, of an unmarried person) To run away secretly for the purpose of getting married with one's intended spouse; to marry in a quick or private fashion, especially without a public period of engagement.
   • 1996, "Introduction", in The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (formerly Mrs. Thrale), Volume 4, 1805-1810 (eds. Edward A. Bloom & Lillian D. Bloom), Associated University Presses (1996), ?ISBN, page 30:

     Although Cecilia was the youngest of the surviving Thrale daughters, she had been the first to marry, eloping to Gretna Green in 1795 with John Meredith Mostyn of neighboring Llewesog Lodge. Both were underage.

   • 2009, Jan Springer, Intimate Stranger, Ellora's Cave (2009), ?ISBN, page 132:

     Although they had eloped in Vegas, she'd insisted he wear a tuxedo and she buy a wedding dress at one of the local stores.

   • 2012, Shirley Jump, One Day to Find a Husband, Harlequin (2012), ?ISBN, page 136:

     They knew each other for maybe a month before they eloped in Vegas.

3. (intransitive, dated) To run away from home (for any reason).
   • 1931, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Five Red Herrings

     If we'd been a bit quicker, we could have caught Gowan before he eloped

Derived terms

• elopement

Translations

Further reading

• elopement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia