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marriageable
[ mar-i-juh-buhl ]
adjective
- suitable or attractive for marriage:
The handsome and successful young man was considered eminently marriageable.
- of an age suitable for marriage:
a marriageable daughter.
marriageable
/ ˈæɪəə /
adjective
- (esp of women) suitable for marriage, usually with reference to age
Derived Forms
- ˌˈٲ, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- r··i·ٲ ۾···Ա noun
- ԴDzm···i·ٲ noun
- ԴDz·۾·· adjective
- ܲ·۾·· adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of marriageable1
Example Sentences
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.
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.
In India, the legal marriageable age is 21 for men and 18 for women.
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.
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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