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wedlocks

wedlocks is the plural of wedlock.

Meaning of wedlock

Noun

wedlock (countable and uncountable, plural wedlocks)

  1. 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
    Synonyms:
    matrimony, marriage
  2. (obsolete) 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

Questions about wedlocks

What is wedlocks the plural of?
Wedlocks is the plural of wedlock.

Words near wedlocks in the dictionary

  1. wedleased
  2. wedleases
  3. wedleasing
  4. wedlock
  5. wedlocked
  6. wedlocks
  7. wedmin
  8. Wedmore
  9. Wednesbury
  10. Wednesbury unreasonable
  11. Wednesbury unreasonableness

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