<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>plural marriages</li><li>any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially</li><li>granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities</li><li>opposite-sex marriage</li><li>same-sex marriage</li><li>plural marriage</li><li>arranged marriage</li><li>traditional marriage</li><li>the state, condition, or relationship of being married; wedlock</li><li>the legal or religious ceremony that formalizes the decision of two people to live as a married couple, including the accompanying social festivities</li><li>wedding</li><li>a relationship in which two people have pledged themselves to each other in the manner of a husband and wife, without legal sanction; trial marriage</li><li>any close or intimate association or union</li><li>confederation</li><li>alliance</li><li>oneness</li><li>unity</li><li>merger</li><li>blend</li><li>a formal agreement between two companies or enterprises to combine operations, resources, etc., for mutual benefit; merger</li><li>a blending or matching of different elements or components</li><li>a meld of the king and queen of a suit, as in pinochle</li><li>a piece of antique furniture assembled from components of two or more authentic pieces</li><li>the formal declaration or contract by which act a man and a woman join in wedlock (obsolete)</li></ul>