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The meaning of WEDLOCK is the state of being married : marriage, matrimony. How to use wedlock in a sentence.
noun [ U ] us / ˈwedˌlɑk / Add to word list. the state of being married. (Definition of wedlock from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of wedlock.
noun [ U ] old-fashioned or humorous us / ˈwed.lɑːk / uk / ˈwed.lɒk / Add to word list. the state of being married. Synonyms. marriage. matrimony formal. union. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships. adulteress. affinal. as husband and wife idiom. be an item idiom. be shacked up idiom.
The noun wedlock means marriage; you might describe your newly-married sister as "entering the magical state of wedlock." Wedlock is an old-fashioned word for matrimony, the state of being married. It comes up most often in the phrase "out of wedlock," when gossipers are describing a baby
noun. The state of being united as husband and wife: conjugality, connubiality, marriage, matrimony. The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus.
2 meanings: 1. the state of being married 2. → See born out of wedlock.... Click for more definitions.
the state of marriage; matrimony. wedlock. / ˈwɛdlɒk / noun. the state of being married. born out of wedlock. born when one's parents are not legally married.
Definition of wedlock noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1 ENTRIES FOUND: wedlock (noun) wedlock / ˈ wɛdˌlɑːk/ noun. Britannica Dictionary definition of WEDLOCK. [noncount] : the state of being married. Their child was born out of wedlock. [=they were not married when their child was born]
Noun. Singular: wedlock. Plural: wedlocks. out of wedlock. Origin of Wedlock. From Middle English wedlok, wedlocke (“wedlock, marriage, matrimony" ), from Old English wedlāc (“marriage vow, pledge, plighted troth, wedlock" ), from wedd (“pledge" ) + -lāc, suffix denoting activity or process, equivalent to wed +"Ž -lock. From Wiktionary.
