marriage

social union or legal contract between people called spouses that creates kinship
Organization legal_institution Q8445
marriage
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marriage

Summary

marriage is a legal institution[1]. marriage draws 4,602 Wikipedia views per month (legal_institution category, ranking #1 of 9).[2]

Key Facts

  • marriage's instance of is recorded as legal institution[3].
  • marriage's instance of is recorded as nominal kinship[4].
  • marriage's instance of is recorded as occurrence[5].
  • marriage's instance of is recorded as institution[6].
  • marriage followed engagement[7].
  • marriage followed wedding[8].
  • marriage was followed by legal separation[9].
  • marriage is a type of intimate relationship[10].
  • marriage's Commons category is recorded as Marriage[11].
  • marriage's said to be the same as is recorded as married[12].
  • marriage's said to be the same as is recorded as marriage[13].
  • marriage is the opposite of not married[14].
  • marriage is the opposite of divorce[15].
  • marriage's Unicode character is recorded as ⚭[16].
  • marriage comprises marital debt[17].
  • marriage's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Marriage[18].
  • marriage's topic's main category is recorded as Q106841531[19].
  • marriage's topic's main category is recorded as Q9708406[20].
  • marriage's facet of is recorded as religion[21].
  • marriage's facet of is recorded as sexual morality[22].
  • marriage's facet of is recorded as procreation[23].
  • marriage's depicted by is recorded as Bridal allegory room[24].
  • marriage's depicted by is recorded as Fragment of a sarcophagus with wedding scenes[25].
  • marriage's depicted by is recorded as Manuscript Leaf with Marriage Scene, from Decretals of Gregory IX[26].
  • marriage's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[27].

Body

Identity

Predecessors include engagement[7] and wedding[8]. marriage was followed by legal separation[9].

Brands and Namesakes

Things named for marriage include marriage in Islam[28], an Islamic term[29] and Legal Marriage[30], a film[31], directed by Albert S. Mkrtchyan[32].

Why It Matters

marriage draws 4,602 Wikipedia views per month (legal_institution category, ranking #1 of 9).[2] marriage has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] marriage is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

Entities named for marriage include marriage in Islam[28], an Islamic term[29] and Legal Marriage[30], a film[31], directed by Albert S. Mkrtchyan[32].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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