Word.ws English Dictionary

propose marriage

propose marriage verb: to ask (someone) if they want to become one's spouse.

Verb

propose marriage (third-person singular simple present proposes marriage, present participle proposing marriage, simple past and past participle proposed marriage)

  1. To ask (someone) if they want to become one's spouse.

Synonyms of propose marriage

Forms of propose marriage

third-person singular presentproposes marriage
present participleproposing marriage
past participleproposed marriage
pastproposed marriage

Questions about propose marriage

What does propose marriage mean?
Propose marriage means to ask (someone) if they want to become one's spouse.
What part of speech is propose marriage?
Propose marriage is a verb.
What is the past tense of propose marriage?
The past tense of propose marriage is proposed marriage.

Words near propose marriage in the dictionary

  1. proposalists
  2. proposals
  3. proposant
  4. proposants
  5. propose
  6. propose marriage
  7. proposed
  8. proposed marriage
  9. proposedly
  10. proposee
  11. proposees

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: propose 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “propose marriage.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/propose_marriage. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.