"marital status" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority

is a type of: legal status - a status defined by law
subtypes:
- marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, union, wedlock - the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
- civil union - a voluntary union for life (or until divorce) of adult parties of the same sex
- bachelorhood - the state of being an unmarried man
- spinsterhood - the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman)
- widowhood - the state of being a widow who has not remarried