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

How to determine your tax filing status The starting point in determining your filing status is your legal marital status on December 31, the last day of the tax year for most individual taxpayers. — Nancy Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 June 2026

In accordance with the Monégasque Constitution, which was updated in 2002, the eligibility of the child is dependent on their parents’s marital status. — Staff Author, InStyle, 23 June 2026

Through the years, a headscarf was also a signal of a marital status and specific occasions such as a celebration versus a church service. — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 4 June 2026

To adjust for noncoverage bias, the L2 voter file was stratified by statehouse district, party, race, gender, marital status, household size, turnout history, age and homeownership. — New York Times, 21 May 2026

Rhymes for marital status

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