# marry

Pronunciation: US say "MAIR-ee" /ˈmɛɹ.i/; UK say "MA-ree" /ˈmæɹ.i/

## Verb

1. To become someone's husband or wife; to take someone as a spouse, or to get married.
   - Simple: To become the husband or wife of someone.
   - _Many couples now choose to marry later in life._
   - _He married at thirty, after years on his own._
2. To join or combine two different things closely or so that they fit well together.
   - Simple: To join two different things together well.
   - _The architect wanted to marry function with beauty._
   - _Her writing marries sharp humor and deep insight._
3. To unite two people in matrimony by performing the wedding ceremony.
   - Simple: To join two people as husband and wife during a ceremony.
   - _Only a licensed officiant can marry a couple in this state._
   - _The ship's captain married the two passengers at sea._
4. To arrange the marriage of someone, especially a son or daughter, to another person.
   - Simple: To arrange for someone, often your child, to be married to another.
   - _The king sought to marry his daughter to a neighboring prince._
   - _She married her children into several respectable houses._

## Interjection

5. Used to affirm a statement emphatically, meaning indeed or in truth. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: An old way of saying 'indeed!' or 'truly!' to stress a point.

## Other meanings

- (verb) In sailing, to join two ropes, either by laying them side by side so they can be hauled on together or by uniting their ends into one line.

## Origin

**Meanings 1–4** — This comes from Middle English "marien," from Anglo-Norman "marïer," from Latin "maritare" ("to wed"), based on "maritus" ("husband, suitor") and perhaps ultimately "mas" ("man, male"), whose deeper origin is uncertain. It possibly traces back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "young man," and it replaced the native Old English "hiwian."
**Meaning 5** — Dating from the mid-1300s, this word is a Middle English use of Marie, the name of the Virgin Mary.

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