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Meanings of marriageable age in English
Catalan
edat per a contraure matrimoni Spanish
edad nubil Marriageable age (or marriage age) is the general age, as a legal age or as the minimum age subject to parental, religious or other forms of social approval, at which a person is legitimately allowed for marriage.
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Examples for "marriage age"
Examples for "marriage age"
1
The marriage age for both sexes is about 35 years, in terms of your time measurements.
2
The minimum legal marriage age is 15 in about a dozen African countries, and change is gradual.
3
That is a very "modern" and "developed" marriage age.
4
But in right priority to the question of choice, we may for convenience discuss first the marriage age.
5
There are many good arguments, admirably adapted to an imaginary world, why the marriage age should be increased.
Usage of marriageable age in English
1
Tell me; the daughter must be quite at a marriageable age now.
2
Most of em's got daughters of marriageable age, and they'll bring em.
3
In the morning unmarried women of marriageable age would dance the Pole.
4
The marriageable age was from fourteen for men, and twelve for girls.
5
I had big ears, but normally women of marriageable age liked that.
6
There were so few of them, young men of marriageable age.
7
He's of marriageable age, and she will be, too, before long.
8
The bumpkin comes up to marriageable age, and takes the first-
9
There was at that time a daughter, who had just reached marriageable age.
10
Their wives, if of marriageable age, are expected to marry again.
11
Once upon a time, in Carinthia, there lived a Grand Duchess, of marriageable age.
12
They were of marriageable age and had to be displayed.
13
She will soon be of marriageable age, and she shall be reserved for you.
14
She must be reaching a marriageable age by now.
15
When these young girls arrive at marriageable age they are not abandoned by the Government.
16
Etymologically it means puella nubilis-a maiden of marriageable age.
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Marriageable age through the time
Marriageable age across language varieties
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