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

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmarried/#x1)
- In the story, the unmarried princess ruled the kingdom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmarried/#x2)
- Many unmarried couples have children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmarried/#x3)
- The form asks if you are married or unmarried. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmarried/#x4)
- The two unmarried sisters ran the shop together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmarried/#x5)

### 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).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/23/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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