vt any intimate or close union.
2. marriage ·vt the marriage vow or contract.
3. marriage ·vt a feast made on the occasion of a marriage.
4. marriage ·vt the act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony.
5. marriage ·add. ·noun in bezique, penuchle, and similar games at cards, the combination of a king and queen of the same suit. if of the trump suit, it is called a royal marriage.