Lexic.us

Definition of Married couple

1. Noun. Two people who are married to each other. "A married couple without love"

Definition of Married couple

1. Noun. Two people who are married to each other; often a husband and wife. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Married Couple

Literary usage of Married couple

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Tools to Manage Vegetation and Fuels: A Consumer Guideby David L. Peterson by David L. Peterson (2008)
"The number of spouses is equal to the number of "married-couple families" or "married-couple households" in 100-percent tabulations. The number of spouses, ..."

2. Beethoven's Letters: A Critical Edition : with Explanatory Notes by Ludwig van Beethoven, Alfred Christlieb Kalischer, John South Shedlock (1909)
"CLI To THE married couple BIGOT [Probably Summer 1808] DEAR MARIE, DEAR BIGOT, Only with the deepest regret am I forced to perceive that the purest, ..."

3. Population Profile of the U.S., 1997 by Andrea Curry, Karen Mills, Janice Valdisera (2000)
"About four of every five White married-couple family renters could not qualify to ... About 17 percent of White married couple family homeowners could not ..."

4. Travels Through Part of the United States and Canada in 1818 and 1819 by John Morison Duncan (1823)
"VISITING YOUNG married couple. round a few nuts or apples, and in a little the callers take their leave as abruptly as they entered. ..."

5. The Life of General William Booth: The Founder of the Salvation Army by Harold Begbie (1920)
"In this way the young married couple were destined to spend some considerable time of their life without the comfort and convenience of a home. ..."

6. The American Christian Record: Containing the History, Confession of Faith (1860)
"John—Bethany—married couple : John Adam Wiliam Koester; and the F. Br. ... Beaufort—married couple : George Heath. New Hope—married couple : James Ward. ..."

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