English noun: spousal relationship | |||
1. | spousal relationship (state) the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce) | ||
Samples | A long and happy marriage. God bless this union. | ||
Synonyms | marriage, matrimony, union, wedlock | ||
Broader (hypernym) | marital status | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | bigamy, common-law marriage, cuckoldom, endogamy, exogamy, inmarriage, intermarriage, intermarriage, marriage of convenience, misalliance, monandry, monogamousness, monogamy, open marriage, polygamy, sigeh | ||
Domain category | jurisprudence, law | ||