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wedlock 音标拼音: [w'ɛdl ,ɑk] n. 结婚生活 结婚生活 wedlock n 1: the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life ( or until divorce); " a long and happy marriage"; " God bless this union" [ synonym: { marriage}, { matrimony}, { union}, { spousal relationship}, { wedlock}] Wedlock \ Wed" lock\, n. [ AS. wedl[= a] c a pledge, be trothal; wedd a pledge l[= a] c a gift, an offering. See { Wed}, n., and cf. { Lake}, v. i., { Knowledge}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. " That blissful yoke . . . that men clepeth [ call] spousal, or wedlock." -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord or continual strife? -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A wife; a married woman. [ Obs.] -- B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: See { Marriage}. [ 1913 Webster]
Wedlock \ Wed" lock\, v. t. To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed. [ R.] " Man thus wedlocked." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 34 Moby Thesaurus words for " wedlock": a world- without- end bargain, alliance, bed, bond of matrimony, bridebed, cohabitation, conjugal bond, conjugal knot, coverture, holy matrimony, holy wedlock, husbandhood, ill- assorted marriage, intermarriage, interracial marriage, marriage, marriage bed, marriage sacrament, match, matrimonial union, matrimony, mesalliance, misalliance, miscegenation, mixed marriage, nuptial bond, sacrament of matrimony, spousehood, union, wedded bliss, wedded state, weddedness, wedding knot, wifehood
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