Words pertaining to "MARRIAGE" I List of words in context of MARRIAGE

Let us look at some of the words pertaining to “MARRIAGE”. By this, it means that the list of words given here is used in the context of marriage in some of the other way. The best way to remember some of these words is by knowing the “root words”.

As we all know root words are building blocks to vocabulary. By knowing a few simple root words we can grab a bundle of vocabulary into our brain bucket. It’s so useful that we don’t even have to mug up the words.

For those of you who don’t know “root words” are the base words i.e those words that have its own meaning and cannot be broken further to form any other meaningful word. But meaningful words can be formed by the same root words by adding a prefix or suffix to it. If this confuses you take a look at the example.

For example: “crypt” is a base word which means “to hide”. Now can you break this root word “crypt” to form any other meaningful word?- The answer is “NO”. But we can form other words by adding a suffix to it. For example “cryptic” which means ‘mysterious’. Another one “cryptography” or “cryptology” which is the practice of secure communication (when information is shared by coding it)

Now coming back to our topic on words related to marriage. The root word for marriage is “gam”. So whenever you come across a word that has the root word “gam” in it, be sure that the word is in the context of marriage.

Few root words that you will come across in the list are:

mono- one or single ; bi – two or second ; poly- many ; gyn- woman ; andry- man ; mis- to hate

Now all you need is to combine the root words to find the meaning of the words given. Let’s look at it. The word “monogamist” has the root words ‘mono’ & ‘gam’. “mono” means ‘single’ & “gam” means ‘marriage’. So in total one who has done only one marriage (or One who has only one wife or husband at a time)

List of the words pertaining to marriage:

1. One who has only one wife or husband at a time- monogamist

2. One who marries a second wife or husband while the legal spouse is alive- bigamist

3. Man who has more than one wife at a time- polygynist

4. Woman who has more than one husband at a time- polyandrist

5. A hater of marriage- misogamist

6. One who vowed to a single or unmarried life- celibate

7. Legal dissolution of the marriage of husband and wife- divorce

8. Payment of money allowed to a wife on legal separation from her husband- alimony

9. A man whose wife is dead- widower

10. The property which a new wife brings to her husband- dowry

11. One engaged to be married- fiancée

12. A bride’s outfit- trousseau

13. Proclamation of intended marriage- banns (or banns of marriage)

14. To run away with a lover in order to get married secretly- elope 

Words pertaining to MARRIAGE