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premarriage

premarriage adjective: before marriage.

Adjective

premarriage (not comparable)

  1. Before marriage.

Noun

premarriage (countable and uncountable, plural premarriages)

  1. A period of time before marriage.
    • Dating and pre-marriage are times to sort out what kind of person you like or if you like people at all.2012, Justin Velgus, Ai, Love You?: Finding Friendship, Romance, and Heartbreak in Japan
    • If we have to start inspecting premarriages and I have to give birth control advice to every innocent woman those boys decide […]2012, Cait London, Last Dance

Forms of premarriage

Adjective
alternative formpre-marriage
Noun
pluralpremarriages

Origin of premarriage

From pre- + marriage.

Questions about premarriage

What does premarriage mean?
Premarriage means before marriage.
What part of speech is premarriage?
Premarriage can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near premarriage in the dictionary

  1. premaritally
  2. premarked
  3. premarket
  4. premarketing
  5. premarkup
  6. premarriage
  7. premarriages
  8. premarxist
  9. premasseteric
  10. premastectomy
  11. premaster

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