Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not married; having no spouse.
- noun One who is not married.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not married; single: as, an unmarried woman or man.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having no
husband orwife . - noun An unmarried person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not married or related to the unmarried state
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Examples
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˜All bachelors are unmarried males™ is an analytic statement, since the concept expressed by ˜unmarried male™ is contained in the concept expressed by ˜bachelor™.
The Epistemology of Modality Vaidya, Anand 2007
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Nowadays we no longer insist teachers take chastity vows, remain unmarried, fill the inkwells, clean the coal boilers, or do whatever else they did in the good old days.
Arthur Goldstein: Let's Fire Miss Crabtree Arthur Goldstein 2010
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Nowadays we no longer insist teachers take chastity vows, remain unmarried, fill the inkwells, clean the coal boilers, or do whatever else they did in the good old days.
Arthur Goldstein: Let's Fire Miss Crabtree Arthur Goldstein 2010
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Jenkins makes a good argument that Elizabeth's determination to remain unmarried stemmed not just from the abuse she suffered in her teens from her stepmother, Catherine Parr, and Parr's new husband Seymour, but also from the childhood echoes of her own mother's execution - an event she could barely remember, but which was echoed in the beheading of another stepmother when she was eight.
October Books 19) Doctor Who - Slipback nwhyte 2009
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Nowadays we no longer insist teachers take chastity vows, remain unmarried, fill the inkwells, clean the coal boilers, or do whatever else they did in the good old days.
Arthur Goldstein: Let's Fire Miss Crabtree Arthur Goldstein 2010
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Where being unmarried is concerned, Miliband should be applauded for not racing down to the register office cynically to do the deed during the leadership campaign, definitely for refusing to propose on Daybreak.
Why Ed reminds women of every bad ex-boyfriend Barbara Ellen 2010
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"Nepalese folklore holds that men who marry a former kumari will die young, and so many girls remain unmarried and face a life of hardship."
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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"Nepalese folklore holds that men who marry a former kumari will die young, and so many girls remain unmarried and face a life of hardship."
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His vegetarianism, his abstinence from alcohol, and his refusal to engage in unmarried sex, do not enter into my judgment of his actions as an elected head of state.
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KAYE: Maria is a fleck of gold in the gold mine known as unmarried women voters.
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