engaged
adjective (MARRIAGE) /ɪnˈɡeɪdʒd/Definition
B1 having formally agreed to marry: Debbie and Christa have just got engaged. She was engaged to some guy in the army.formal They're engaged to be married in June.Marriage, cohabitation and other relationships
(Definition of engaged adjective (MARRIAGE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- adulteress noun
- as husband and wife idiom
- be an item idiom
- be shacked up idiom
- civil partnership noun
- have something going with sb idiom
- hear wedding bells idiom
- hitched adjective
- intermarriage noun
- involvement noun
- marriage certificate noun
- marriage noun (TWO PEOPLE)
- marriageable adjective
- marry in haste, repent at leisure idiom
- marry verb (MAN AND WOMAN)
- serial monogamy noun
- seven-year itch noun
- shack up phrasal verb
- together adverb (WITH EACH OTHER)
- wedlock noun
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