marriageable
nounEtymology From marriage + -able.
1
One who is suitable for marriage.
marriageable
adjEtymology From marriage + -able.
1
Suitable for marriage; nubile.
- Marry money, thought I to myself, who will he marry? then in my own mind I made a review of all the marriageable heiresses, and heiresses apparent, not only in Silveryville, but likewise, in a circuit several miles around it, and I could not find one among them all, who was not already engaged to be married to somebody else.1861, G. Fort, “Our First Newspaper”, in We Four Villagers. A Tale of Domestic Life in Pennsylvania., Philadelphia, Pa.: J. S. McCalla, […], page 60:
- Antonyms
- unmarriageable
- Derived terms
- intermarriageable, marriageability, marriageableness, marriageably, nonmarriageable, unmarriageable