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.
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The romantic comment came despite the couple never publicly confirming or denying their marital status.
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2025
Caregivers with a greater number of close friends generally reported lower levels of loneliness, even after controlling for other factors like depression and marital status.
—New Atlas, 30 Oct. 2025
The Pew analysis uses the refined divorce rate, which is the number of divorces divided by the number of married women ages 15 and older, multiplied by 1,000, rather than the overall divorce rate, which measures divorces per 1,000 women regardless of their marital status.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Moreover, within wider patriarchal systems that afford few women, regardless of marital status, economic and social security, polygyny may not just be a tolerable choice but in some contexts a preferred arrangement with tangible benefits for both genders.
—David W. Lawson, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2025
Caregivers with a greater number of close friends generally reported lower levels of loneliness, even after controlling for other factors like depression and marital status.
—New Atlas, 30 Oct. 2025
The Pew analysis uses the refined divorce rate, which is the number of divorces divided by the number of married women ages 15 and older, multiplied by 1,000, rather than the overall divorce rate, which measures divorces per 1,000 women regardless of their marital status.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Moreover, within wider patriarchal systems that afford few women, regardless of marital status, economic and social security, polygyny may not just be a tolerable choice but in some contexts a preferred arrangement with tangible benefits for both genders.
—David W. Lawson, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for marital status
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“Marital status.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marital%20status. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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