married person
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- noun
- /ˈmɛrɪd ˈpɜrsən/
:
persona casada
- Sometimes married people find out they can't live with each other.
- married people are more likely
- married people have better sex
- married people are more
Examples
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Married people have to eat, right?
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Many married people enjoy spending weekends together with their families.
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Let's say you are a married person and your parents are living.
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Do you even know any happily married people?
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And the two big things that really come out consistently are religious people are happier and married people are happier.
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But if you just take thousands of people and you do great big averages, married people are on average somewhat happier.
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There is a correlation between marriage and happiness, that married people are on average happier than people who are single.
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There's nothing wrong with marriage, but how many married people can genuinely say that they're happy?
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In the celebration, we raised a toast to all the married people in attendance.
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Married people often share responsibilities for household chores and finances.
Synonyms
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A husband, wife, or long-term companion in a romantic relationship
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A person who is married to someone
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A person who is your partner in a close romantic relationship
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A person someone is married to or lives with, said in a friendly, joking way
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'married' (in a marital relationship) modifies 'person' (a human), yielding 'a person who is married' (i.e., a spouse). This adjective + noun combination follows standard, cross-linguistic composition patterns and would be predictable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Married person comes from the simple idea of two people being joined in marriage, where married means joined and person names one individual. So a married person is someone's partner, a 'spouse'.