marriageable
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Definition(s):
- (adj) of girls or women who are eligible to marry
Usage(s):
- Yet infanticide sets up fierce competition for marriageable females, both within and among villages, and this in turn produces chronic warfare.
- If you separate out women of the most marriageable age, the numbers are even more head snapping: in 1963, 83% of women 25 to 55 were married; by 1997 that figure had dropped to 65%.
- Margaret Truman was 21 and marriageablethe first marriageable White House daughter in more than a quarter of a century.
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