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Definition of Matrimony
Matrimony

The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock.

A kind of game at cards played by several persons.

Related Definitions:
And, As, At, By, Game, Husband, Kind, Man, Marriage, Nuptial, Of, Played, Several, State, The, Union, Wedlock, Wife, Woman


Matrimony Quotations

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Ambrose Bierce

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Peter De Vries

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
Karl Kraus

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
Isadora Duncan

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
Helen Rowland

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
Lord Chesterfield

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Heinrich Heine

Matrimony Translations

matrimony in Afrikaans is huwelik
matrimony in Dutch is huwelijk, echtverbintenis, echt
matrimony in French is conjungo
matrimony in Italian is stato matrimoniale
matrimony in Norwegian is ekteskap
matrimony in Spanish is matrimonio


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