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# marry

«marry» in Mova's school dictionary: **to become their husband or wife in a wedding** — 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

verb (marry, marries, married, marrying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To marry someone means to become their husband or wife in a wedding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marry/#m1)

2) To marry means to perform the wedding: "The priest married them." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marry/#m2)

3) To marry two things means to join or combine them well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marry/#m3)

4) Marry is an old word, used to mean "indeed" or "truly" to show strong feeling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marry/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marry/#x1)
- They got married in a small church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marry/#x2)
- The prince married the princess and they lived happily ever after. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marry/#x3)
- My grandparents have been married for fifty years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marry/#x4)
- The judge married the couple at the town hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marry/#x5)
- This dish marries sweet and sour flavours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marry/#x6)
- "Marry, I'm in earnest," said the tinker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marry/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/9/)
- [Remarrying means marrying again after a divorce or after a husband or wife has died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/15/)
- [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/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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