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nearlyweds

nearlyweds is the plural of nearlywed.

Meaning of nearlywed

Noun

nearlywed (plural nearlyweds)

  1. A person who is engaged to be married.
    • The best advice for anyone about to buy furniture—and this goes for singles, nearlyweds, parents, and retirees—is study.1974, Frances Heard, Harriet Burket, JoAnn Francis Gray, Founders Guide to Modern Decorating, New York, N.Y.: Popular Library, →LCCN, page 86
  2. A person who lives with a romantic partner without being married.
    • Call them "nearlyweds," couples with all the trappings of marriage—the home, the in-laws, the shared Labradoodle, maybe even the kids—but no actual marriage certificate. It's the latest relationship trend, and a growing one. But is it good or bad for women? Let nearlyweds themselves, and a few wise...2013 August 13, Shaun Dreisbach, “Are You a Nearlywed?”, in Glamour

Questions about nearlyweds

What is nearlyweds the plural of?
Nearlyweds is the plural of nearlywed.

Words near nearlyweds in the dictionary

  1. nearly never won the race
  2. nearly-dead
  3. nearly-deads
  4. nearlyness
  5. nearlywed
  6. nearlyweds
  7. nearmost
  8. nearnative
  9. nearness
  10. nearnesses
  11. nearring

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nearlyweds (page history and authors); nearlywed (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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