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OPEN MARRIAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does open marriage mean?
• OPEN MARRIAGE (noun)
The noun OPEN MARRIAGE has 1 sense:
1. a marriage in which each partner is free to enter into extraneous sexual relationships without guilt or jealousy from the other
Familiarity information: OPEN MARRIAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A marriage in which each partner is free to enter into extraneous sexual relationships without guilt or jealousy from the other
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("open marriage" is a kind of...):
marriage; matrimony; spousal relationship; union; wedlock (the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce))
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