marital status

noun

: the state of being married or not married

—used on official forms to ask if a person is married, single, divorced, or widowed

Please enter your marital status.

Examples of marital status in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

If your income dramatically changes, your marital status or your other family statuses, the plan needs to be revised. —James Brewer, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025

Likely voters are based on a probabilistic statistical model that relies on past voting history, interest in the current election, age, education, race, ethnicity, church attendance and marital status. —Dana Blanton, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2024

But what this incident has not ruined is Louise’s desirability, despite her marital status. —David John Chávez, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025

However, stratified analyses indicated that marital status impacted dementia risk consistently, regardless of a person’s education, depression level, or genetic risk factors (e.g., APOE-e4 status). —Ximena Araya-Fischel, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025

Rhymes for marital status

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