child marriage
child marriage noun: the marriage or cohabitation between a minor and an adult or another minor.
Noun
child marriage (countable and uncountable, plural child marriages)
- The marriage or cohabitation between a minor and an adult or another minor.
child marriage meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Kannada
child marriage in Hindi
- child marriage
- बाल विवाह bāl vivāh
child marriage in Tamil
- குழந்தை மணம், சிறார் மணம்
child marriage in Bengali
- child marriage
- বাল্যবিবাহ ballobibaho
child marriage in Kannada
- ಬಾಲ್ಯ ವಿವಾಹ
More languagesFewer languages
- child marriage in Gujarati
- બાળલગ્ન bāḷlagna, બાળવિવાહ bāḷvivāh
- child marriage in Odia
- ବାଳ ବିବାହ bāḷa bibāha
- child marriage in Indonesian
- perkawinan anak
Forms of child marriage
| plural | child marriages |
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Origin of child marriage
Compound of child + marriage.
Questions about child marriage
- What does child marriage mean?
- Child marriage means the marriage or cohabitation between a minor and an adult or another minor.
- What is child marriage in Hindi?
- Child marriage in Hindi is बाल विवाह (bāl vivāh). See Child marriage meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is child marriage?
- Child marriage is a noun.
- What is the plural of child marriage?
- The plural of child marriage is child marriages.
Words near child marriage in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: child marriage (page history and authors); child marriage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); child marriage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); બાળલગ્ન (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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