| adultery |
willing sexual intercourse between a married person and another who is not his or her spouse. |
| affair |
a love relationship, especially one between two people who are not married to each other. [1/3 definitions] |
| attached |
(informal) married or in a romantic relationship; not single or available as a partner. [1/4 definitions] |
| bachelor |
a man who has not married. |
| baseborn |
born of parents who are not married to each other; illegitimate. [1/3 definitions] |
| benedict |
a newly married man, esp. one who was previously thought unlikely to marry. |
| betrothed |
a person to whom one is engaged to be married. [2 definitions] |
| bigamous |
being married to two husbands or two wives simultaneously, or involving such a condition. |
| bigamy |
in law, the crime of marrying one person while still married to another. |
| Bluebeard |
in folklore, a man who married and then killed six wives. |
| bride1 |
a woman who is about to be married or was just married. |
| bridegroom |
a man who is about to be married or was just married. |
| concubine |
a woman who cohabits with a man but is not married to him; mistress. [1/2 definitions] |
| countess |
a woman married to a count or earl. [1/2 definitions] |
| coverture |
a married woman's legal status, esp. when merged with that of her husband. [1/2 definitions] |
| divorced |
no longer married because of divorce, a legal process that ends a marriage. |
| doņa |
(cap.) Lady or Madam; a title of respect or courtesy used before a married woman's name in Spain or other Spanish-speaking countries. [1/2 definitions] |
| dower |
a newly married woman's dowry. [1/4 definitions] |
| duchess |
a woman who is married to or the widow of a duke. [1/2 definitions] |
| engagement |
a pledge to be married; period of anticipating marriage; betrothal. [1/4 definitions] |
| extramarital |
of or pertaining to sexual relations between a married person and someone other than his or her spouse; adulterous. |