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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/married/#m1)

2) (past form) Became husband and wife, or joined two people in marriage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/married/#m2)

3) married to (informal): very involved in something, such as work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/married/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/married/#x1)
- They got married on a beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/married/#x2)
- She is married to a teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/married/#x3)
- The married couple went on holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/married/#x4)
- A priest married them in the church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/married/#x5)
- He's married to his job! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/married/#x6)
- How long have your grandparents been married? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/married/#x7)
- She said "Yes," and they were married. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/married/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/15/)
- [Having many wives was a custom of some old kings; today in most countries a person may be married to only one person.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/21/)
- ["Love child" means a child whose parents were not married (old-fashioned).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/21/)
- ["Born out of wedlock" is the official phrase for born to parents who were not married.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/22/)
- ["Between marriages" means divorced and not married again (jokey).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «married» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/married/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.