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open marriages

open marriages is the plural of open marriage.

Meaning of open marriage

Noun

open marriage (countable and uncountable, plural open marriages)

  1. A marital relationship in which both partners mutually agree that each is free to have sexual relationships with other people as they choose.
    • "Most people have been married more than once, and adultery is universally tolerated. Open marriage would simply legitimize what we already live."1973 January 8, “The Sexes: Swinging Future”, in Time, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2011

Questions about open marriages

What is open marriages the plural of?
Open marriages is the plural of open marriage.

Words near open marriages in the dictionary

  1. open letter
  2. open letters
  3. open market
  4. open markets
  5. open marriage
  6. open marriages
  7. open matte
  8. open media
  9. open mic
  10. open mics
  11. open mike

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