English-Greek translations for marriage

• γάμος
• παντρειά
• συμπεθεριά

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