Synonyms for wedlock
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Definitions
- n. 1
The state of being married.
Forms
- Plural
- wedlocks → marriages, matrimonies, unions, matches…
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Wedlock, a word of specific legal use, is the Saxon term for the state or relation denoted by matrimony.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- marriage He intimated that all is not well in his marriage.
- matrimony The critical period in matrimony is breakfast time.
By length
- 5 letters
- union2, match1
- 8 letters
- marriage2
- 9 letters
- matrimony4
- 10 letters
- couverture
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (union2 = 2 syllables).