marriageable Meaning of "marriageable"

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Definition(s):

  • (adj) of girls or women who are eligible to marry

Usage(s):

  1. Yet infanticide sets up fierce competition for marriageable females, both within and among villages, and this in turn produces chronic warfare.
  2. 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%.
  3. Margaret Truman was 21 and marriageablethe first marriageable White House daughter in more than a quarter of a century.
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