wedlock
UK/ˈwɛd.lɒk/
wedlock noun: the state of being married.
Noun
wedlock (countable and uncountable, plural wedlocks)
- The state of being married.
- If I were about to marry, I should try it; that is, if I were a student of girldom with a view to wedlock for in truth, I am a marrying man.1871, Thomas Meehan, editor, Gardener's monthly and horticulturist
- Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);1906, William Henry Schofield, English Literature
- A wife; a married woman.
- that lovely payre, / Enlincked fast in wedlockes loyall bond, / Bold Marinell with Florimell the fayre […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- Which of these is thy Wedlock, Menelaus? thy Hellen? thy Lucrece? that we may do her Honour; mad Boy?1601, Ben Jonson, The Poetaster
wedlock meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Telugu and Malayalam
wedlock in Tamil
- திருமண உறவு, மண வாழ்க்கை
wedlock in Urdu
- بیاہ, نکاح, شادی
wedlock in Telugu
- wedlock
- దాంపత్యము dāmpatyamu
- wedlock, the state of being a wife
- ఐదువతనము aiduvatanamu
wedlock in Malayalam
- marriage, (holy) matrimony, married state
- വിവാഹം, പരിണയം, വേളി, വേൾവി, കല്യാണം, മാംഗല്യം
More languagesFewer languages
- wedlock in Kannada
- ಮದುವೆಯಾಗಿರುವಿಕೆ, ದಾಂಪತ್ಯ, ವಿವಾಹಿತ ಸ್ಥಿತಿ
Synonyms of wedlock
Forms of wedlock
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Origin of wedlock
From Middle English wedlok, wedlocke (“wedlock, marriage, matrimony”), from Old English wedlāc (“marriage vow, pledge, plighted troth, wedlock”). By surface analysis, wed + -lock.
Words formed from wedlock
Phrases with wedlock
Words that rhyme with wedlock
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- sock
- unlock
- baroque
- flock
- locke
- mock
- ad hoc
- frock
- unblock
- undock
- VOC
- chock
- defrock
- nock
- o'clock
- prairie dock
- proc
- smock
- acock
- amok
- bangkok
- bloc
- Carvel Rock
- doc
- grok
- hough
- loch
- pock
- slock
- wok
- 24-hour clock
- bock
- bok
- brocc
- choc
- croc
- digital clock
- drop lock
- Farallon Rock
- flight sock
- freezer block
- gock
- hashlock
- hock
- kozachok
- lough
- Nixon shock
- oc
Questions about wedlock
- What does wedlock mean?
- Wedlock means the state of being married.
- What is wedlock in Tamil?
- Wedlock in Tamil is திருமண உறவு, மண வாழ்க்கை. See Wedlock meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is wedlock?
- Wedlock is a noun.
- How do you pronounce wedlock?
- Wedlock is pronounced /ˈwɛd.lɒk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of wedlock?
- The plural of wedlock is wedlocks.
Words near wedlock in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wedlock (page history and authors); wedlock (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wedlock (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ఐదువతనము (Telugu) (page history and authors); wedlock (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); wedlock (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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