English-Finnish translations for marriage

• avioliitto
  Kaasuputkisto on kuin avioliitto. A pipeline is rather like a marriage.
  Uskomme, että tämä on ollut hyvä intressien avioliitto. We believe that it has been a good marriage of interests.
  Olen aina ajatellut, että ystävänpalvelus ja avioliitto sulkevat toisensa pois. I always thought that marriage and convenience are mutually exclusive!
• avioituminen
• häät
• naimakauppa
  puolueiden ja rakennusliikkeiden naimakaupat
• rekisteröity parisuhde
  Vuodesta 2002 lähtien kahden samaa sukupuolta olevan rekisteröity parisuhde on ollut mahdollinen Suomessa.
  suhteen osapuoli on jo rekisteröidyssä parisuhteessa tai avioliitossa
• vihkiminen

Definition of marriage

• The state of being married. etymonline actually has the original sense as "act of marrying", distinct from "wedding"--
• A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, and/or religious rights and responsibilities.
• A homosexual relationship between male prisoners
• A close union.
• A joining of two parts
• In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value

Examples

• You should enter marriage for love
• My grandparents marriage lasted for forty years.
• Pat and Leslies marriage to each other lasted forty years.
• You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe.

Related words

• intermarriage
• marriageable
• remarriage
• marriageability
• marriagelike
• antimarriage
• mismarriage
• marriage finger
• marriage counsellor