Usually means: Legally or formally joining two people.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word marry:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. marry: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. marry: Merriam-Webster
  3. marry, marry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. marry, marry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. marry: Collins English Dictionary
  6. marry: Vocabulary.com
  7. Marry, marry: Wordnik
  8. marry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. marry: Wiktionary
  10. marry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. marry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. marry: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Marry, marry: Dictionary.com
  14. marry (interj.), marry (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. marry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Marry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Marry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. marry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. marry: Rhymezone
  20. marry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. marry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. marry: FreeDictionary.org
  23. marry: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. marry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. marry: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. marry: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. marry: Legal dictionary
  2. marry: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. marry: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. marry: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. marry: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. marry: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
verb:  (intransitive) To enter into marriage with one another.
verb:  (transitive) To take as husband or wife.
verb:  (transitive) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.
verb:  (transitive) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively, of inanimate or abstract things) To join or connect. See also marry up.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To unite; to join together into a close union.
verb:  (nautical) To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
verb:  (nautical) To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.

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