ESPOUSALS Synonyms

• of or relating to a wedding

• of or pertaining to a bride

• archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast

• archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast

• the act of becoming betrothed or engaged

• the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception

• the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

• two people who are married to each other

• the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony

• a close and intimate union

• the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

• the ceremony or sacrament of marriage

• the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed

• of trade unions

• an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

• the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)

• the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

• the state of being joined or united or linked

• the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

• healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones

• a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations

• a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets

• the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts

• a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)

• the act of making or becoming a single unit

• being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War

• the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed

• the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony

• a party of people at a wedding

• the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

• take in marriage; married

• perform a marriage ceremony

• a deposit of personal property as security for a debt

• someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group

• a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event

• a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something

• promise solemnly and formally

• pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals

• propose a toast to

• give as a guarantee

• bind or secure by a pledge

• the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true

• the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception

• the state of being acceptable and accepted

• (contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract)

• a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank

• a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations

• the act of taking something that is offered

• acceptance as true or valid

• the accepted meaning of a word

• the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception

• the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception

• a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)

• the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source