remarriage

«remarriage» in Mova's school dictionary: getting married again after a divorce or after a husband… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (remarriage, remarriages)

meaning for a pupil

1) Remarriage is getting married again after a divorce or after a husband or wife has died. tree →

2) A remarriage is a second (or later) marriage. tree →

sense in the lessons

A word of family life and adult life: after a parent's remarriage, a child may get a step-parent, step-siblings and a «blended family». In RE, churches have different teachings on remarriage after divorce. Phrases: «remarriage after divorce», «a happy remarriage».

examples

• After Dad's remarriage, I got two stepbrothers. tree →
• Some churches do not allow remarriage after divorce. tree →
• Her remarriage made the whole family happy. tree →
• Remarriage can bring big changes for children. tree →
• Grandma's remarriage at seventy surprised everyone. tree →
• The book is about a family learning to get along after a remarriage. tree →

note

Countable and uncountable. From «re-» (again) + «marriage»; verb «remarry». Spelling: double r in the middle: re-ma-rr-iage.

In the corpora

• Churches differ on same-sex marriage and on remarriage after divorce; these are disputed questions.

Trees and pragmatics

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