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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Belonging to the period after marriage.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Being or happening after marriage: as, a post-nuptial settlement on a wife.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Being or happening after marriage.

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  • adjective Subsequent to marriage.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective relating to events after a marriage

Etymologies

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post- +‎ nuptial

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