- marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock - the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
--1 is a kind of marital status
--1 has particulars:bigamy; common-law marriage; endogamy, intermarriage, inmarriage; exogamy, intermarriage; marriage of convenience; misalliance; monandry; monogamy, monogamousness; open marriage; polygamy; sigeh