different between marry vs marriage

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

Etymology

From Middle English mariage, from Old French mariage, from marier (“to marry”), from Latin mar?t? (“marry”, verb, literally “give in marriage”), from maritus (“lover”, “nuptial”), from mas (“male, masculine, of the male sex”). Equivalent to marry +? -age. Displaced native Old English ?esins?ipe.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mæ??d?/
• (General American) enPR: m?r??j
  • (Mary–marry–merry distinction) IPA^(key): /?mæ??d?/
  • (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /?m???d?/, /?me??d?/
• Rhymes: -æ??d?

Noun

marriage (countable and uncountable, plural marriages)

1. The state of being married. [from 14th c.]

2. A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, and/or religious rights and responsibilities. [from 14th c.]
   • 1944, Tiaki Hikawera Mitira, Takitimu, page 123:

     By his marriage to his two wives, Tapuwae quietly strengthened all of the pas of the Wairoa district, as many of them came under his control through these unions.

   • 1990, John Stevens, Lust for enlightenment: Buddhism and sex:

     One layman in Buddha's time decided to embrace celibacy and relinquished his marriage vows to his four wives. When he asked them what they wanted in terms of a settlement, one said, […]

   • 1995, Edith Deen, All of the women of the Bible, page 275:

     The account of the loss of the blessing of his father Isaac appears immediately after Esau's marriage to his Hittite wives.
   1. (sometimes specifically) 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.

      My grandparents' marriage lasted for forty years.

      Pat and Leslie's marriage to each other lasted forty years.

   2. (often specifically) The union of two people of opposite sex, to the exclusion of all others.
3. A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed. [from 14th c.]

   You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe.

4. (figuratively) A close union. [from 15th c.]
   • 2000, Edmund E. Jacobitti, The Classical Heritage in Machiavelli's Histories, in The comedy and tragedy of Machiavelli: essays on the literary works (edited by Vickie B. Sullivan), page 181:

     And this marriage of poetry and history remained a solid relationship throughout the classical period.

   • 2006 August 9, Amy Scattergood, A wild dream in the wild, published in the Los Angeles Times, republished in 2009 in The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook: A Year in the Life of a Restaurant (by Michelle and Phillip Wojtowicz and Michael Gilson with Catherine Price), on the cover:

     But the food is real: a marriage of local ingredients and serious technique.
5. A joining of two parts.
6. (card games) A king and a queen, when held as a hand in some versions of poker or melded in pinochle.
7. (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.
8. (prison slang) A homosexual relationship between male prisoners.

Usage notes

• For a detailed discussion of marriage as an institution, with its traditions, its norms, and its accompanying legal rights and obligations, please consult the Wikipedia article on marriage.
• On Wiktionary, see also "common-law marriage", "open marriage", and "gay marriage".

Synonyms

• matrimony
• wedding
• civil union

Hyponyms

• wedlease

Antonyms

• divorce

Derived terms

Pages starting with “marriage”.

Related terms

• marry

Translations

See also

References

• marriage at OneLook Dictionary Search
• marriage in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• marriage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• Michael Weisenberg, The Official Dictionary of Poker (2000, MGI/Mike Caro University, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• germaria