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betrothable

betrothable adjective: fit or able to be betrothed; of marriageable age, quality, or status.

Adjective

betrothable (comparative more betrothable, superlative most betrothable)

  1. Fit or able to be betrothed; of marriageable age, quality, or status.
    • The transitions from girl, to betrothable maiden, to wife, to mother and to post-menarche old woman may, or may not, be much more dramatically marked than the equivalent stages are for men, but the ceremonies mark individual status changes, [...]1978, Paul Trevor William Baxter, Uri Almagor, Age, generation and time
    • Though marriage was deferred until later, girls became betrothable at twenty, and all students over twenty attended the soirées.2000, Sheri S. Tepper, Singer from the Sea

Forms of betrothable

comparativemore betrothable
superlativemost betrothable

Origin of betrothable

From betroth + -able.

Questions about betrothable

What does betrothable mean?
Betrothable means fit or able to be betrothed; of marriageable age, quality, or status.
What part of speech is betrothable?
Betrothable is an adjective.

Words near betrothable in the dictionary

  1. betrod
  2. betrodden
  3. betrophied
  4. betroth
  5. betroth'd
  6. betrothable
  7. betrothal
  8. betrothals
  9. betrothed
  10. betrotheds
  11. betrothedst

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