English-Thai Dictionary

wedlock

N สภาวะ การ สมรส  ชีวิต การ สมรส  matrimony sa-pa-wa-kan-som-rod

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WEDLOCK

n.Marriage; matrimony.

 

WEDLOCK

v.t.To marry. [Little used. ]

 

WEDLOCKED

pp. United in marriage. [Little used. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

WEDLOCK

Wed "lock, n. Etym: [AS. wedlac a pledge, be trothal; wedd a pledge +lac a gift, an offering. See Wed, n., and cf. Lake, v. i., Knowledge. ]

 

1. The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. "That blissful yoke. .. that men clepeth [call ] spousal, or wedlock. " Chaucer. For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord or continual strife Shak.

 

2. A wife; a married woman. [Obs. ] B. Jonson.

 

Syn. -- See Marriage.

 

WEDLOCK

WEDLOCK Wed "lock, v. t.

 

Defn: To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed. [R.] "Man thus wedlocked. " Milton.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

wedlock

wed lock |ˈwedˌläk ˈwɛdˌlɑk | ▶noun the state of being married. PHRASES born in (or out of ) wedlock born of married (or unmarried ) parents. ORIGIN late Old English wedlāc ‘marriage vow, ’ from wed ‘pledge ’ (related to wed ) + the suffix -lāc (denoting action ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

wedlock

wed |lock |ˈwɛdlɒk | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the state of being married. PHRASES born in (or out of ) wedlock born of married (or unmarried ) parents. ORIGIN late Old English wedlāc ‘marriage vow ’, from wed ‘pledge ’ (related to wed ) + the suffix -lāc (denoting action ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

wedlock

wedlock noun are you truly ready to enter into wedlock? marriage, (holy ) matrimony, married state, union, conjugal bond.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

wedlock

wedlock noun marriage, matrimony, holy matrimony, married state, union, conjugal bond.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

wedlock

w é d l ò ck 名詞 U ｟古 ｠結婚 (している状態 ), 婚姻 .out of [in ] w é dlock ｟かたく 古 ｠庶出 [嫡出 ]で, 両親が結婚せずに [結婚して ].