unmarried

«unmarried» in Mova's school dictionary: not married: an unmarried person does not have 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

adjective (unmarried)

meaning for a pupil

Unmarried means not married: an unmarried person does not have a husband or wife. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, forms and stories: «an unmarried aunt», «unmarried couple» (two people living together without marrying). In formal forms it may appear as a status: single, married, divorced, widowed. Plain word: single.

examples

• My uncle is unmarried and lives on his own. tree →
• In the story, the unmarried princess ruled the kingdom. tree →
• Many unmarried couples have children. tree →
• The form asks if you are married or unmarried. tree →
• The two unmarried sisters ran the shop together. tree →

note

«Un-» + «married». «Single» is the more common everyday word. Old words like «spinster» and «bachelor» are old-fashioned; «spinster» can sound unkind.

In the corpora

• "Natural child" means a child born to unmarried parents (old-fashioned, UK).

Trees and pragmatics

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