What part of speech is married?

Married can be categorized as a noun, a verb and an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. married is a verb, past participle of marry (infinitive).
  • 2. married is a verb, past simple of marry (infinitive).
  • 3. married is a noun, singular of marrieds.
  • 4. married is an adjective, not comparable.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • Not comparable
    Not comparable
  • Positive: married 
  • Comparative: Not comparable
  • Superlative: Not comparable

What does married mean?

Definitions

Adjective

married - joined in matrimony; "a married man"; "a married couple"
married - of or relating to the state of marriage; "marital status"; "marital fidelity"; "married bliss"

Verb

marry - take in marriage
marry - perform a marriage ceremony; "The minister married us on Saturday"; "We were wed the following week"; "The couple got spliced on Hawaii"

Noun

married - a person who is married; "we invited several young marrieds"

Examples of married

#   Sentence  
1. adj. A married man.
2. adj. A married couple.
3. adj. Married bliss.
4. adj. The cousins could not be found because no one was sure of their married names.
5. adj. If you're not presently married, and want to be, you just might wed by the end of the year.
6. adj. Whether you start the year as a single person looking for a partner, or you've been married for many years, happiness in love does lie ahead.
7. adj. I am married and have two children.
8. adj. She knew what it was like for married women to look after houses, husbands and children.
9. adj. More and more married couples share household chores.
10. adj. Sometimes it's good for a married couple to go to a hot spring together—just the two of them.
11. adj. I wish you a long and happy married life.
12. adj. Married to an Italian, she lives in Rome now.
13. adj. May you have a very happy married life!
14. adj. A married couple should form a union.
15. adj. Married people sometimes wish they were single.
16. verb As to our family, within the last ten days our youngest daughter Elizabeth was married to a young man from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
17. verb The newly married couple living on the corner in front of the entrance of George's house (Friar Park) refers to him as an overbearing person to stay away from.
18. verb This is like trying to Make 2 people get married.
19. verb But like i said nothing ever came of It.. the next time I saw him He had told Me he had To get married to a girl Who he worked with becuse he knocked Her Up..
20. verb One hundred and fifty thousand couples are expected to get married in Shanghai in 2006.
21. verb By the time you get out of jail, she'll probably have gotten married.
22. verb To my surprise, he got married to a very beautiful actress.
23. verb My sister married a high school teacher last June.
24. verb It won't be long before they get married.
25. verb To make a long story short, we married.
26. verb Being only a student, I can't afford to get married.
27. verb On leaving school, she got married to her classmate.
28. verb Everyone opposed it, but they got married all the same.
29. verb In our culture, we can't be married to two women at once.
30. verb In our culture, a man is allowed to be married to only one wife at a time.
Sentence  
adj.
A married man.
A married couple.
Married bliss.
The cousins could not be found because no one was sure of their married names.
If you're not presently married, and want to be, you just might wed by the end of the year.
Whether you start the year as a single person looking for a partner, or you've been married for many years, happiness in love does lie ahead.
I am married and have two children.
She knew what it was like for married women to look after houses, husbands and children.
More and more married couples share household chores.
Sometimes it's good for a married couple to go to a hot spring together—just the two of them.
I wish you a long and happy married life.
Married to an Italian, she lives in Rome now.
May you have a very happy married life!
A married couple should form a union.
Married people sometimes wish they were single.
verb
As to our family, within the last ten days our youngest daughter Elizabeth was married to a young man from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The newly married couple living on the corner in front of the entrance of George's house (Friar Park) refers to him as an overbearing person to stay away from.
This is like trying to Make 2 people get married.
But like i said nothing ever came of It.. the next time I saw him He had told Me he had To get married to a girl Who he worked with becuse he knocked Her Up..
One hundred and fifty thousand couples are expected to get married in Shanghai in 2006.
By the time you get out of jail, she'll probably have gotten married.
To my surprise, he got married to a very beautiful actress.
My sister married a high school teacher last June.
It won't be long before they get married.
To make a long story short, we married.
Being only a student, I can't afford to get married.
On leaving school, she got married to her classmate.
Everyone opposed it, but they got married all the same.
In our culture, we can't be married to two women at once.
In our culture, a man is allowed to be married to only one wife at a time.

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