жени́ться — meaning in English

English meaning

• espouse verb To adopt a belief, cause or way of life and openly support it.
• 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

жени́ться is used for these senses in English:

• espouse (transitive) To marry.
• get married (intransitive) To become married (to someone).
• get married (reciprocal, intransitive) To become married (to each other).
• marry (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. [from 14th c.]
• marry (transitive) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place. [from 16th c.]
• take a wife (idiomatic, dated, of a man) To marry a woman.
• wed (transitive) To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.
• wed (figurative, intransitive) To take to oneself and support; to espouse.

espouse — full definition

1. verb To adopt a belief, cause or way of life and openly support it.
2. verb To marry someone.

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.

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