to get married
- phrasal verb
- /ɡɛt ˈmɛrɪd/
- That year John and I got married in Tuscany.
- want to get married
- get married and have children
- couple got married
And I ended up deciding that getting married would be a way out.
- And I ended up deciding that getting married would be a way out.
- But I just, I guess you also, you got married during COVID.
- You say that women don't get married because they're selfish.
- What happens if you can't get married or you can't get a mortgage?
- And then life progresses, People get married, people have kids, people move away.
- So you you get married as an expression of faith.
Examples
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She always dreamed of the day she would get married and wear a beautiful wedding dress.
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We want to get married.
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Both of them just got married a year prior.
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Will I ever get married in my future?
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We're not going to get married this year.
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And very shortly after getting married, they had a daughter.
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"Look, if you want to, we can get married when I graduate in June."
Fiction book (1990) -
I'm shocked to see that my daughter is finally getting married.
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Well, don't you want to get married and have kids?
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Aren't you getting married this evening?
Synonyms
To become someone's husband or wife in a ceremony
To get married and begin life together as a couple
To marry someone in a ceremony
Marry someone, often in a small informal ceremony
Antonyms
How Formal
- Archaic
- Informal
- Informal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to become legally joined' is transparently derived from 'get' used as a change-of-state/become and 'married' meaning in the state of having a spouse; together they form a standard get + adjective construction. This compositional, cross-linguistically common pattern is predictable for B1 learners who know both constituents, so they can infer the meaning without prior exposure.
Etymology
Get married comes from two simple words: get meaning 'to become' and married meaning 'joined in marriage'. Think of putting on a ring or signing papers and suddenly becoming joined to another person, so get married means 'to become legally joined with someone'.