to get married

Examples

• All

• She always dreamed of the day she would get married and wear a beautiful wedding dress.

• We want to get married.

  Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

• Both of them just got married a year prior.

• Will I ever get married in my future?

• We're not going to get married this year.

• And very shortly after getting married, they had a daughter.

• "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.

  Buck Southworth: U.S. Air Force Flight Crew (2021)

• Well, don't you want to get married and have kids?

  All of Us Strangers (2023)

• Aren't you getting married this evening?

  I Can't Breathe (God Forgive Them) (2022)

Synonyms

M

to marry

vsto get married

∞ 1.0

To become someone's husband or wife in a ceremony

is about becoming legally joined rather than focusing on ceremony

T

to tie the knot

vsto get married

• Informal

26 3.1

To get married and begin life together as a couple

is the legal joining expressed in plain terms rather than idiom

W

to wed

vsto get married

• Formal

24 2.8

To marry someone in a ceremony

is the legal joining rather than only the formal ceremonial act

G

to get hitched with

vsto get married

• Informal

7.3

Marry someone, often in a small informal ceremony

is the legal joining not just casual or informal expression

Antonyms

D

to divorce

522 3.0

To end a marriage officially by a court

U

unmarried

68 1.0

Not having a husband or wife

How Formal

to take a wife

• Archaic

5 9.2

to marry

∞ 1.0

to get married

∞ 1.0

to tie the knot

• Informal

26 3.1

to get hitched with

• Informal

7.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology