wedlock

FREQ #24639

n. 结婚生活 [法] 婚姻

发音

US
UK /ˈwɛd.lɒk/
UK /ˈwɛd.lɑk/

词形变化

wedlocks 复数 wedlocks

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The state of being married.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    A wife; a married woman.

    可数 废旧 不可数

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

marriage union matrimony

上位词 1

marital status

下位词 10

monogamy polygamy bigamy intermarriage common-law marriage cuckoldom endogamy exogamy inmarriage marriage of convenience

相关短语

out of wedlock [医]婚外的 break wedlock breaks wedlock breaking wedlock broke wedlock broken wedlock

词源

From Middle English wedlok, wedlocke (“wedlock, marriage, matrimony”), from Old English wedlāc (“marriage vow, pledge, plighted troth, wedlock”). By surface analysis, wed + -lock.

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