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The meaning of WEDLOCK is the state of being married : marriage, matrimony. How to use wedlock in a sentence.
noun [ U ] old-fashioned or humorous uk / ˈwed.lɒk / us / ˈwed.lɑːk / Add to word list. the state of being married. Synonyms. marriage. matrimony formal. union. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships. adulteress. affinal. as husband and wife idiom. be an item idiom. be shacked up idiom.
noun [ U ] us / ˈwedˌlɑk / Add to word list. the state of being married. (Definition of wedlock from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of wedlock.
Instead, wedlock is most commonly used in criticism of the actions of couples who are not married, most especially in the phrase born out of wedlock—meaning born when one’s parents are not legally married.
Wedlock is an old-fashioned word for matrimony, the state of being married. It comes up most often in the phrase "out of wedlock ," when gossipers are describing a baby born to unmarried parents.
noun. The state of being united as husband and wife: conjugality, connubiality, marriage, matrimony. The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus.
Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children (if any), and between them and their in-laws.
