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

This is especially important among those who’ve recently taken life-changing turns like changing addresses or marital status, or racking up one or more traffic tickets or crashes. —Jim Gorzelany, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025

Just avoid assuming a gender binary or anyone’s marital status. —Kate McKean 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025

There were other, less predictable consequences of his having lived several prior lives, one of which announced itself, in 1985, in the form of a letter from the Veterans Administration requesting clarification of his marital status. —Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 14 June 2025

Additionally, women’s educational achievements and access to higher-paying roles continue to rise, enabling greater wealth accumulation irrespective of marital status. —April Rudin, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025

Rhymes for marital status

• apparatus
• superlattice
• beatus
• flatus
• gratis
• lattice
• rattus
• satis
• stratus