Marriage

Definition

marriage /'mærÇdʒ/ n ၁။ [U, C] အိမ္ေထာင္ျပဳျခင္း။ အိမ္ေထာင္သည္ ဘဝ။ a happy/ unhappy/loveless marriage ❍ Their marriage ended in divorce. ❍ Her parents' experience had put her off marriage. See also CIVIL MARRIAGE, MIXED MARRIAGE ၂။ [C] လက္ထပ္ျခင္း။ Her second marriage was held/took place in a registry office. ❏ by marriage [ IDM ] လင္ဘက္က (သို႔) မယားဘက္က။ my aunt by marriage. ❏ give sb in marriage (to sb) [ IDM ] ( fml ) ဝိဝါဟမဂၤလာ ျပဳသည္။ ❏ marriageable adj အရြယ္ေရာက္ေသာ။ daughters of marriageable age. ❏ marriage bureau n ( pl bureaux ) ေအာင္သြယ္ အဖြဲ႕အစည္း။ ❏ marriage certificate n လက္ထပ္စာခ်ဳပ္။ ❏ marriage guidance n [U] အိမ္ေထာင္ေရးဆိုင္ရာ အႀကံေပးျခင္း။ a marriage guidance counsellor. ❏ marriage licence n ထိမ္းျမားလက္ထပ္ရန္ တရားဝင္ ခြင့္ျပဳစာ။ ❏ marriage of convenience n အခ်စ္မပါဘဲ အျခား ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္တစ္ခုခုျဖင့္ လက္ထပ္ျခင္း။

Examples

1. A long and happy marriage
2. Too many marriages end in divorce.
3. [by marriage] : I’m related to Bill by marriage (=he is a relative of my husband or wife).
4. Their marriage is planned for September.
5. The merger is a marriage designed to double spending.