marry
part of speech
verb (marry, marries, married, marrying)
meaning for a pupil
1) To marry someone means to become their husband or wife in a wedding. tree →
2) To marry means to perform the wedding: "The priest married them." tree →
3) To marry two things means to join or combine them well. tree →
4) Marry is an old word, used to mean "indeed" or "truly" to show strong feeling. tree →
sense in the lessons
In stories: fairy tales often end with the prince and princess marrying. In everyday life: weddings, getting married. Phrases: marry someone, get married, married to, marry into.
examples
- My aunt is going to marry her boyfriend next summer. tree →
- They got married in a small church. tree →
- The prince married the princess and they lived happily ever after. tree →
- My grandparents have been married for fifty years. tree →
- The judge married the couple at the town hall. tree →
- This dish marries sweet and sour flavours. tree →
- "Marry, I'm in earnest," said the tinker. tree →
note
Spelling: marries, married (y to i). Say "marry someone", not "marry with someone". "Get married" is common in speech. Do not confuse with "merry" (happy) or "Mary" (a name): in some accents they sound alike. In maths: years married = this year's number − wedding year's number.
In the corpora
- Being engaged means two people have promised to marry each other, and a ring is often given as a sign of the promise.
- Remarrying means marrying again after a divorce or after a husband or wife has died.
- 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).
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «marry» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.