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marriageable

[ mar-i-juh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. suitable or attractive for marriage:

    The handsome and successful young man was considered eminently marriageable.

  2. of an age suitable for marriage:

    a marriageable daughter.



marriageable

/ ˈæɪəə /

adjective

  1. (esp of women) suitable for marriage, usually with reference to age
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌˈٲ, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • r··i·ٲ ۾···Ա noun
  • ԴDzm···i·ٲ noun
  • ԴDz·۾·· adjective
  • ܲ·۾·· adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of marriageable1

First recorded in 1545–55; marriage + -able
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Hale lectures Ernest that the only way he will be successful in this town is if he builds a connection to the Osage people — specifically the single, marriageable Osage women.

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Mauritania was once notorious for the custom of brutally force-feeding young girls to make them more marriageable — a practice referred to as gavage, taken from the French term for force-feeding geese to produce foie gras.

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In India, the legal marriageable age is 21 for men and 18 for women.

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As I entered my marriageable years, I was introduced to suitable men from Lima, Peru; Tenerife in the Canary Islands; Paramaribo, Suriname; and Accra, Ghana.

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In freewheeling of California, New York, Florida, and 16 other states, the person with whom you share a set of grandparents is completely fair marriageable game.

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