gray divorce
gray divorce noun: a divorce occurring between senior or elderly individuals, usually after a long-term marriage.
Noun
gray divorce (countable and uncountable, plural gray divorces)
- A divorce occurring between senior or elderly individuals, usually after a long-term marriage.
- Gray divorce: blame the doctors for allowing people to live longer; blame the chemists with their little blue pills that allow for sexual rebirth; blame capitalism, which after all is a raging success that allows the privileged few to have serial marriages and divorces and pay for discarded wives...2018, Jocelyn Elise Crowley, “Praise For Gray Divorce”, in Gray Divorce: What We Lose and Gain from Mid-Life Splits, University of California Press, →ISBN
- The rise in grey divorce isn't exclusive to the US – it's also happening in ageing populations around the world.2025 September 12, Molly Gorman, “'Was it all smoke and mirrors?': How adult children are affected by grey divorce”, in BBC
Forms of gray divorce
| plural | gray divorces |
|---|---|
| alternative form | grey divorce |
Origin of gray divorce
From gray + divorce.
Questions about gray divorce
- What does gray divorce mean?
- Gray divorce means a divorce occurring between senior or elderly individuals, usually after a long-term marriage.
- What part of speech is gray divorce?
- Gray divorce is a noun.
- What is the plural of gray divorce?
- The plural of gray divorce is gray divorces.
Words near gray divorce in the dictionary
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