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MARRIED WOMEN

Specialty Definition: MARRIED WOMEN

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Literature

Married Women take their husband's surname. This was a Roman custom. Thus Julia, Octavia, etc., married to Pompey, Cicero, etc., would be called Julia of Pompey, Octavia of Cicero. Our married women are named in the same way, omitting "of." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: MARRIED WOMEN

Synonym: Wives. (additional references)

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Crosswords: MARRIED WOMEN

Specialty definitions using "MARRIED WOMEN": Covering of the eyesFeme-covertLicensemarital fertility rate. (references)

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Modern Usage: MARRIED WOMEN

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Screenplays

I regret trifling with married women, I'm thoroughly ashamed at cheating at cards, I deplore my occasional departures from the truth, Forgive me for taking your name in vain, my Saturday drunkenness, my Sunday Sloth. (The Cowboys; writing credit: William Dale Jennings; Irving Ravetch)

Movie/TV Titles

Married Women (1990)

Only with Married Women (1990)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: MARRIED WOMEN

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Books

  • The Redbook report on female sexuality : 100,000 married women disclose the good news about sex (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Use in Literature: MARRIED WOMEN

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Emma

Austen, Jane

Married women, you know, may be safely authorised.

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Non-Fiction Usage: MARRIED WOMEN

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Civil Liberties

Lebanon

Married women must obtain their husband's signatures to apply for a passport. (references)

Kuwait

However, married women who apply for passports must obtain their husbands' signature on the application form. (references)

Gabon

The government agency that controls immigration intermittently enforced an internal regulation requiring married women to have their husbands' permission to travel abroad. (references)

Travel

Korea

Single women generally receive less respect than married women whose ties to their husband oftentimes establish their position in society. (references)

Women

Togo

Wife beating has been estimated to affect approximately 10 percent of married women. (references)

Poland

According to the NGO La Strada 18 percent of married women admitted to being victims of physical abuse by their husbands. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: MARRIED WOMEN

Language Translations for "MARRIED WOMEN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

Verdrag betreffende de nationaliteit van de gehuwde vrouw (Convention on the Nationality of Married Women), de gehuwde vrouwen,die een opleiding volgen,hebben een hogere vooropleiding,daar 31% van hen een schoolopleiding van het 2de niveau heeft voltooid (married women undergoing training had a higher starting level since 31% of them already had the secondary school level). (various references)

   

French

  

les femmes mariées en formation ont un niveau de départ plus élevé puisque 31% d'entre elles ont déj le 2e niveau scolaire (married women undergoing training had a higher starting level since 31% of them already had the secondary school level), Convention sur la nationalité de la femme mariée (Convention on the Nationality of Married Women). (various references)

   

German

  

die in der Ausbildung befindlichen Frauen haben ein hoeheres Ausgangsniveau,da bereits 31% von ihnen ueber das 2.Schulniveau verfuegen (married women undergoing training had a higher starting level since 31% of them already had the secondary school level), Übereinkommen über die Staatsangehörigkeit verheirateter Frauen (Convention on the Nationality of Married Women). (various references)

   

Italian

  

le donne coniugate che seguono una formazione hanno un livello di partenza piu elevato,giacche il 31% di esse ha gia terminato il secondo livello scolastico (married women undergoing training had a higher starting level since 31% of them already had the secondary school level), Convenzione della cittadinanza della donna coniugata (Convention on the Nationality of Married Women). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

留袖 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

とめそで (tomesode, woman's ceremonial kimono). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arriedmay omenway

   

Portuguese

  

Convenção sobre a Nacionalidade das Mulheres Casadas (Convention on the Nationality of Married Women). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Convenio sobre nacionalidad de la mujer casada (Convention on the Nationality of Married Women). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: MARRIED WOMEN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-m-m-n-o-r-r-w"

-3 letters: remainder.

-4 letters: airdrome, airwomen, demeanor, dewormer, domineer, dreamier, enamored, ironware, ironweed, madwomen, marrowed, moderner, narrowed, ordainer, radiomen, remained, reminder, reordain, reremind, rewarmed, rewinder, wanderer, wonderer.

-5 letters: admirer, adorner, amender, amidone, aneroid, armoire, armored, arrowed, dernier, downier, drainer, dreamer, drowner, earworm, emeroid, endower, ermined, inarmed, madrone, mariner, married, meander, mermaid, miaowed, mimeoed, minored, mirador.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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