remarry

UK/ɹiːˈmæɹi/

verbB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,829 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: remarried, remarrying, remarries

To remarry is to marry again. A second wedding, after a divorce or a bereavement.

The word is plain and carries no judgement, which is why registrars and newspapers use it. It works with or without an object, so you can remarry, or remarry somebody, and people occasionally remarry the same person they divorced. The related nouns are remarriage and, for the state before it, widowhood. Many pensions and wills contain clauses that change if the survivor decides to remarry, which is where the word turns up in legal writing.

Definitions of remarry

1verbremarryTo marry again after a divorce or the death of a spouse.B2+
“She remarried three years after the divorce.”

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*méryos — young man
Latin
marito — to wed
Anglo-Norman
marïer
Middle English
marien
English
marry
English, today
remarry

Built from

marītus · Latin — husband, suitor
mās · Latin — man, male

From re- + marry. marry comes from Middle English marien, from Anglo-Norman marïer, from Latin marito (“to wed”), from marītus (“husband, suitor”), from mās (“man, male”), of unknown origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European méryos (“young man”), same source as Sanskrit मर्य (“suitor, young man”). Compare its feminine derivatives: Welsh morwyn (“girl”), merch (“daughter”), gme-cgo marzus (“wedding”), Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (“boy; girl”), Lithuanian martì (“bride”), ae 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (“yeoman”).) Displaced native hīwian.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove, Word Building

First appears in chapter 16 of A Man Called Ove.

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remarry in the wild

Within the story, Ryan prepared to remarry Victoria but Tricia Dennison, his ex-wife, attempted to shoot her and Ryan took two bullets and died from the injury.
Ryan McNeil
Following the birth, Goleuddydd becomes fatally ill and, before dying, exhorts her husband not to remarry until he sees a briar with two blossoms on her grave.
Goleuddydd
Birla's decision in 1922 to remarry following the death of his first wife caused a split in the Maheshwari caste of which his family were a member.
Rameshwar Das Birla
In such cases as these, the beth din will permit him to remarry only after one hundred rabbis agree with them to issue an exemption.
Heter meah rabbanim
Both parents have obligations for the continuing support of any children and can remarry if they wish.
Courtship, marriage, and divorce in Cambodia

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Related words

the marïer family

marry marriage

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