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companionate marriages

companionate marriages is the plural of companionate marriage.

Meaning of companionate marriage

Noun

companionate marriage (plural companionate marriages)

  1. A marriage in which the partners decide not to have children, and to reserve the right to divorce amicably with mutual consent.
  2. (social history) A conception of marriage where complicity, communication and support between spouses are considered important, rather than purely material questions of inheritance etc.

Questions about companionate marriages

What is companionate marriages the plural of?
Companionate marriages is the plural of companionate marriage.

Words near companionate marriages in the dictionary

  1. companionableness
  2. companionably
  3. companionage
  4. companionate
  5. companionate marriage
  6. companionate marriages
  7. companioned
  8. companioness
  9. companionesses
  10. companionhood
  11. companioning

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Adapted from Wiktionary: companionate marriages (page history and authors); companionate marriage (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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