Vocabulary-Marriage
This list Vocabulary-Marriage will give you all the words denoting Marriage.
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• Monogamist…One who has only one wife or husband at a time
• Bigamist…One who marries second wife or husband while the first legal spouse is alive
• Polygamist…Man who has more than one wife at a time
• Polyandrist…Woman who has more than one husband at a time
• Misogamist…A hater of marriage
• Celibate…One who vowed to a single or unmarried life
• Divorce…Legal dissolution of marriage of husband and wife
• Alimony…Payment of money allowed to wife on legal separation from the husband
• Widower…A man whose wife is dead
• Dowry…The property that the new wife brings to her husband
• Widow…A woman whose husband is dead
• Fiancé…One engaged to be married
• Fiancée… One engaged to be married
• Betrothed… One engaged to be married
• Affianced… One engaged to be married
• Trousseau…A bride’s outfit
• Banns…Proclamation of intended marriage
• Elope…To run away with lover in order to get married
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