# marriage

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈmæɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ · frequency rank #1,313

## Definitions
1. The state of being married.
2. A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.
3. A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.
4. A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.
5. A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed.
6. A close union.
7. A joining of two parts.
8. A king and a queen, when held as a hand in some versions of poker or melded in pinochle.
9. In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value.
10. A homosexual relationship between male prisoners.

## Etymology
From Middle English mariage, from Old French mariage, from marier (“to marry”), from Latin marītō (“marry”, verb, literally “give in marriage”), from marītus (“lover”, “nuptial”), from mas (“male, masculine, of the male sex”). Equivalent to marry + -age. Doublet of maritage. Displaced native Old English sinsċipe.

## Common misspellings (9)
`amrriage`, `mariage`, `marirage`, `marraige`, `marriaeg`, `marriagge`, `marrigae`, `mmarriage`, `mrariage`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/marriage