married man
- noun
- /ˈmɛrɪd mæn/
- First, let me inform you that I have been a happily married man for fifty-five years.
- married men and women
- married men generally
- married men with children
And they've heard so many horror stories from other married men about this.
- And they've heard so many horror stories from other married men about this.
- There's next saga is flirting with married men.
- You are involved with a married man.
- I don't think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
- Number two, reason that you are being approached by married men, you give off a lot of masculine energy.
- So and women who who are married live longer too, but they don't enjoy the same kind of of premium as married men do.
- And I'm just curious, was there a death of, of the perception of your old self when you went from being this bachelor to becoming a married man?
- And you know, as as a married man who I'm I'm trying to be.
- My man is a married man, a wife.
- So so far the main character seems a little naive and I think she may have fallen in love like crush on a married man which not great.
- And he said married men, his wife had a massage that day and fell asleep in the room.
- I mean, you've got to remember that once he'd married, he had this image, married man, the rest of it.
Examples
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Mr. Murray is a married man.
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While Canadian officials preferred young, single men, married men willing to precede their families were also picked.
Academic text (1991) -
So I get to leave here a married man.
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Taking a relationship risk with a married man is like taking no risk at all.
Fiction book (2002) -
Evidence suggests that married men do not gain status from their partner's employment status.
Academic text (1995) -
I told you, I'm a married man.
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I'm a married man of 20 years!
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Once they are permanent residents, married men generally send for their wives and other family members.
Academic text (2009) -
Yeah, I've been a happily married man for a long time.
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He is proud to introduce himself as a married man during the family gathering.
Synonyms
A man who is married
A person who is married to someone
A person who has a husband or wife
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a man who is legally married' is directly and compositionally derived from the adjective 'married' modifying the noun 'man' (an adjective + noun pattern). This is a basic, cross-linguistically common construction that a B1 learner who knows both constituent words will readily understand.
Etymology
Married man is a simple phrase that paints a picture: a married man wearing a wedding ring and living with his wife. So married man means 'a man who is legally married', often used when talking about his wife or family.