брать в жёны — meaning in English

English meaning

• marry verb To become someone's husband or wife in a legal or religious ceremony.
• wed verb To marry someone, or to conduct a marriage ceremony joining two people.

Senses

брать в жёны is used for these senses in English:

• marry (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. [from 14th c.]
• take a wife (idiomatic, dated, of a man) To marry a woman.
• wed (figurative, intransitive) To take to oneself and support; to espouse.

marry — full definition

1. verb To become someone's husband or wife in a legal or religious ceremony.
2. verb To combine or join two things closely together.

wed — full definition

1. verb To marry someone, or to conduct a marriage ceremony joining two people.
2. verb To commit permanently to something, as if bound to it by marriage.

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