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mar·riage  audio  (mrj) KEY 

NOUN:
    1. The legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife.
    2. The state of being married; wedlock.
    3. A common-law marriage.
    4. A union between two persons having the customary but usually not the legal force of marriage: a same-sex marriage.
  2. A wedding.
  3. A close union: "the most successful marriage of beauty and blood in mainstream comics" (Lloyd Rose).
  4. Games The combination of the king and queen of the same suit, as in pinochle.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English mariage, from Old French, from marier, to marry ; see marry1


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