married

«married» in Mova's school dictionary: Having a husband or wife — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective; past form of the verb marry (marry, marries, married, marrying)

meaning for a pupil

1) Having a husband or wife. tree →

2) (past form) Became husband and wife, or joined two people in marriage. tree →

3) married to (informal): very involved in something, such as work. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and family life: "my aunt got married last summer". In family-tree questions. Phrases: get married, married to, married couple, newly married.

examples

• My aunt and uncle are married. tree →
• They got married on a beach. tree →
• She is married to a teacher. tree →
• The married couple went on holiday. tree →
• A priest married them in the church. tree →
• He's married to his job! tree →
• How long have your grandparents been married? tree →
• She said "Yes," and they were married. tree →

note

Say "married to" someone, not "married with". "Get married" is the everyday phrase. A married couple is 2 people in maths problems.

In the corpora

• A golden wedding anniversary means a couple has been married for fifty years.
• Having many wives was a custom of some old kings; today in most countries a person may be married to only one person.
• "Love child" means a child whose parents were not married (old-fashioned).
• "Born out of wedlock" is the official phrase for born to parents who were not married.
• "Between marriages" means divorced and not married again (jokey).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «married» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.