Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - married

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If you are married, you have a husband or wife. We have been married for 14 years... She is married to an Englishman. ...a married man with two children. ADJ: oft ADJ to n 2. Married means relating to marriage or to people who are married. For the first ten years of our married life we lived in a farmhouse. ADJ: ADJ n 3. If you say that someone is married to their work or another activity, you mean that they are very involved with it and have little interest in anything else. She was a very strict Christian who was married to her job... ADJ: v-link ADJ to n