marriage
wedding
marriage ceremony | the act of marrying, the nuptial ceremony, their marriage was conducted in the chapel |
| civil marriage | a marriage performed by a government official rather than by a clergyman |
| dissolution of marriage | an annulment of a marriage |
| Hundred Years' War | the series of wars fought intermittently between France and England, - |
| Seven Years' War | a war of England and Prussia against France and Austria (-), Britain and Prussia got the better of it |
| Thirty Years' War | a series of conflicts (-) between Protestants and Catholics starting in Germany and spreading until France and Denmark and Sweden were opposing the Holy Roman Empire and Spain |
| marriage bed | the bed shared by a newly wed couple |
marriage contract
marriage settlement | a prenuptial agreement or contract |
marriage license
marriage licence
wedding license
wedding licence | a license authorizing two people to marry |
| marriage counseling | counseling on marital problems and disagreements |
marriage proposal
proposal of marriage
marriage offer
proposal | an offer of marriage |
marriage
married couple
man and wife | two people who are married to each other, his second marriage was happier than the first, a married couple without love |
| same-sex marriage | two people of the same sex who live together as a family, the legal status of same-sex marriages has been hotly debated |
| mixed marriage | marriage of two people from different races or different religions or different cultures, the families of both partners in a mixed marriage often disapprove |
marriage brokerage
marriage mart | a business that arranges marriage contracts |
matchmaker
matcher marriage broker | someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others |
marriage
matrimony
union spousal relationship
wedlock | the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce), a long and happy marriage, God bless this union |
| common-law marriage | a marriage relationship created by agreement and cohabitation rather than by ceremony |
| marriage of convenience | a marriage for expediency rather than love |
| open marriage | a marriage in which each partner is free to enter into extraneous sexual relationships without guilt or jealousy from the other |
| marriage | a close and intimate union, the marriage of music and dance, a marriage of ideas |
days
years | the time during which someone's life continues, the monarch's last days, in his final years |
| golden years | the time of life after retirement from active work |
old age
years
age eld
geezerhood | a late time of life, old age is not for sissies, he's showing his years, age hasn't slowed him down at all, a beard white with eld, on the brink of geezerhood |
long time
age years | a prolonged period of time, we've known each other for ages, I haven't been there for years and years |
| out of wedlock outside marriage | of unwed parents, he was born out of wedlock |