#marital_status the condition of being married or unmarried
supertype: #status__position the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society: "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life"
subtype: #wedlock__marriage__matrimony__union state of being husband and wife; "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
subtype: #bigamy.wedlock having more than one spouse at a time
subtype: #common-law_marriage a marriage relationship created by agreement and cohabitation rather than by ceremony
subtype: #endogamy__intermarriage__inmarriage marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
subtype: #exogamy__intermarriage marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
subtype: #marriage_of_convenience a marriage for expediency rather than love
subtype: #misalliance an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage)
subtype: #mesalliance a marriage with a person of inferior social status
subtype: #monandry having one husband at a time
subtype: #monogamy__monogamousness__monogyny having one wife at a time
subtype: #serial_monogamy a succession of short monogamous relationships (as by someone who undergoes multiple divorces)
subtype: #open_marriage a marriage in which each partner is free to enter into extraneous sexual relationships without guilt or jealousy from the other
subtype: #polyandry having more than one husband at a time
subtype: #polygamy__polygyny having more than one wife at a time
subtype: #bachelorhood the state of being an unmarried man
subtype: #spinsterhood the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman)
subtype: #widowhood.marital_status the state of being a widow who has not remarried
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