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English
Etymology
From un- + married.
Pronunciation
Adjective
unmarried (not comparable)
- Having no husband or wife.
- Synonyms: single, unhitched, unspoused, unwed
- Antonym: married
2014 January 20, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “‘She. Herself. Naked.': The Art of He Chengyao”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 August 2023, Sinosphere:Her young parents, who worked in a pottery factory in Rongchang in present-day Chongqing municipality, conceived her while unmarried.
Translations
having no husband or wife
- Albanian: pamartuar (sq)
- Armenian: չամուսնացած (čʻamusnacʻac), ամուրի (hy) (amuri)
- Assamese: আবিয়ৈ (abioi)
- Belarusian: нежана́ты m (nježanáty) (of a man), незаму́жняя f (njezamúžnjaja) (of a woman)
- Bulgarian: неже́нен m (nežénen) (of a man), неомъ́жена (bg) f (neomǎ́žena) (of a woman)
- Catalan: solter (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 獨身／独身 (zh) (dúshēn)
- Czech: svobodný (cs) m, neženatý m, svobodná f, nevdaná f
- Danish: ugift (da)
- Dutch: ongehuwd (nl), alleenstaand (nl), ongetrouwd (nl)
- Finnish: naimaton (fi), vapaa (fi)
- French: célibataire (fr)
- Galician: solteiro
- Georgian: დაუქორწინებელი (daukorc̣inebeli), დაუოჯახებელი (dauoǯaxebeli) (lacking own family, i.e. unmarried), დასაოჯახებელი (dasaoǯaxebeli) (to be married), უცოლო (ucolo) (having no wife), უქმრო (ukmro) (having no husband), უცოლშვილო (ucolšvilo) (having no wife and kids), უქმარშვილო (ukmaršvilo) (having no husband and kids), მარტოხელა (marṭoxela) (single, unmarried), გაუთხოვარი (gautxovari) (women only, not married off)
- German: unverheiratet (de), ledig (de), solo (de) (colloquial)
- Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (unliugaiþs)
- Greek: ανύπαντρος (el) (anýpantros)
- Ancient Greek: ἄγαμος (ágamos) (of men), ἄνανδρος (ánandros) (of women), ἀλέκτωρ (aléktōr) (hapax)
- Hungarian: nőtlen (hu) (with no wife), hajadon (hu) (with no husband)
- Icelandic: ógiftur (is) (of a man or woman; formerly only of a woman), ókvæntur (of a man)
- Ido: nemariajata, nemariajita
- Irish: neamhphósta, singil
- Italian: celibe (it) m, nubile (it) f
- Japanese: 独身 (ja) (どくしん, dokushin), 未婚 (ja) (みこん, mikon)
- Latin: caelebs, innuptus (said of a woman)
- Macedonian: нео́женет m (neóženet) (of a man), неома́жена f (neomážena) (of a woman)
- Manx: neuphoost, gyn poosey
- Maori: takakau, kiritapu (of a woman)
- Navajo: bízhą́
- Norwegian: ugift (no)
- Old English: ǣmettig
- Persian: مجرد (fa) (mojarrad)
- Plautdietsch: lädich
- Polish: nieżonaty (pl) m (of a man), niezamężna f (of a woman), niewydany, niewydana
- Portuguese: solteiro (pt)
- Romanian: necăsătorit (ro), burlac (ro) (of a man)
- Russian: нежена́тый (ru) m (neženátyj), холосто́й (ru) m (xolostój) (of a man), незаму́жняя (ru) f (nezamúžnjaja) (of a woman)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: нео̀жењен (of a man), не̏уда̄н or не̏уда̄т (of a woman)
- Roman: neòženjen (sh) (of a man), nȅudān or nȅudāt (of a woman)
- Slovak: slobodný m, neženatý m, slobodná f, nevydatá f
- Slovene: neporočen, samski
- Spanish: soltero (es)
- Swedish: ogift (sv)
- Telugu: పెళ్ళికాని (peḷḷikāni)
- Thai: โสด (th) (sòot)
- Ukrainian: нежона́тий m (nežonátyj) (of a man), незамі́жня f (nezamížnja) (of a woman), неодру́жений (neodrúženyj) (of a man or woman)
- Vietnamese: độc thân (vi)
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Noun
unmarried (plural unmarrieds)
- An unmarried person.
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