marriageable

Word family

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++mar·riage·a·ble /ˈmærɪdʒəbəl/ adjective old-fashioned MARRYsuitable for marriage 适合结婚的 a girl of marriageable age 一个已到适婚年龄的女孩

Examples from the Corpus

marriageable• Young women of conspicuously marriageable age never sat there.• Originally they remained priestesses for only five years: that is, until they reached marriageable age.• Humble clerks who have gone a bust on clothes for marriageable daughters are outraged but too timid to protest.• Zuwaya men, for instance were extremely careful not to touch the marriageable daughters of their kin, friends and neighbours.• How many marriageable girls does a man meet?• But there were few marriageable girls left.• All too often she merely gives up her remaining marriageable years to them.• There was as a result a shortage of marriageable young men among the lower Patels.