married couple
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈmɛrɪd ˈkʌpəl/
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pareja casada
- Sometimes married couples have fights.
- married couples with children
- married couple living together
- newly married couples
Let's say you've got a married couple and they both want freedom.
- Let's say you've got a married couple and they both want freedom.
- But there is so much more to this married couple and their story.
- And in the clip, they, you know, he's interviewed tons of married couples, singles, whatever.
- Co parenting is something that also married couples do.
- Also, I like to say there is, I know that it's quite in vogue for couples to have a podcast or married couples to have a podcast.
- It's this young married couple and her, I don't know what her real name is, but he calls her Pookie.
- You know, we, we went through that, that furnace of adversity together within, you know, as a, as a, as a married couple.
- I have a question because you're in this, you know, extremely difficult situation and you've been dealt this hand, but you're still a married couple.
- But I will tell you that most people dating never talk about this and even married couples rarely talk about this, which is what is our vision.
Examples
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We went to dinner with our friends, a married couple who just celebrated their anniversary.
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Olean was a community of married couples, many with young children.
Fiction book (2001) -
But there is so much more to this married couple and their story.
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Yeah, we are an old married couple, which is the greatest form of couple right now.
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Oh, my God, we already sound like a married couple.
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And so, we began our life together, like any other happily married couple.
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A month ago, a married couple on vacation had rented this cabin.
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They're a happily married couple, and that ought to stand for something these days ...
Fiction book (1994) -
They were two married couples, beautiful, vibrant, with the whole world ahead of them.
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Laurie recognized most of these guests, four married couples who'd been friends of her parents for years.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
24
4.0
A married couple made of a man and a woman
How Committed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'two people who are married to each other' is directly derivable from combining 'married' (in the state of having a spouse) with 'couple' (two people considered as partners). This is a straightforward compositional noun phrase with no idiomatic or metaphorical shift, and the concept is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Married couple paints a simple picture of two people joined by marriage. Couple means a 'pair' and married shows they are 'joined', so the phrase means two people who are married, like a husband and wife.