marriageable

English

Etymology

From marriage +‎ -able.

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Adjective

marriageable (comparative more marriageable, superlative most marriageable)

  1. Suitable for marriage; nubile.
    • 1861, G. Fort, “Our First Newspaper”, in We Four Villagers. A Tale of Domestic Life in Pennsylvania., Philadelphia, Pa.: J. S. McCalla, […], page 60:
      Marry money, thought I to myself, who will he marry? then in my own mind I made a review of all the marriageable heiresses, and heiresses apparent, not only in Silveryville, but likewise, in a circuit several miles around it, and I could not find one among them all, who was not already engaged to be married to somebody else.

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Noun

marriageable (plural marriageables)

  1. One who is suitable for marriage.
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