Synonyms of the word

marriage

• n. The state of being married.
• n. A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, and/or religious rights…
• n. A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed.
• n. (figuratively) A close union.
• n. A joining of two parts.
• n. (card games) A king and a queen, when held as a hand in Texas hold 'em or melded in pinochle.
• n. (card games) In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above…

family

• n. (countable) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption);…
• n. (countable) An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
• n. (countable) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially…
• n. (countable, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon…
• n. (countable) Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing…
• n. (countable, music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
• n. (countable, linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
• n. Used attributively.
• adj. Suitable for children and adults.
• adj. Conservative, traditional.
• adj. (slang) Homosexual.

matrimony

• n. Marriage; the state of being married.
• n. The ceremony of marriage.
• n. A particular solitaire card game using two decks of cards.

rite

• n. A religious custom.
• n. (by extension) A prescribed behavior.
• adj. Informal spelling of right.
• adv. Informal spelling of right.
• interj. Informal spelling of right.
• n. Informal spelling of right.

ritual

• adj. Related to a rite or repeated set of actions.
• n. rite; a repeated set of actions.

unification

• n. The act of unifying.
• n. The state of being unified.
• n. (mathematical logic, computer science) Given two terms, their join with respect to a specialisation order.

union

• n. (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being united or joined.
• n. (countable) That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts…
• n. (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
• n. (countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some…
• n. (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
• n. (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
• n. (countable) The act or state of marriage.
• n. (uncountable, archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
• n. (countable, computing) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a…
• n. (countable, now rare, archaic) A large, high-quality pearl.
• v. To combine sets using the union operation.

wedding

• v. present participle of wed.
• n. Marriage ceremony; ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.
• n. Joining of two or more parts.
• v. (intransitive, humorous) To participate in a wedding.

wedlock

• n. The state of being married; matrimony.
• n. (obsolete) A wife; a married woman.