wedlock

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈwɛd.lɒk/|/ˈwɛd.lɑk/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state of being married. countable,uncountable
    — If I were about to marry, I should try it; that is, if I were a student of girldom with a view to wedlock for in truth, I am a marrying man.
  2. A wife; a married woman. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — that lovely payre, / Enlincked fast in wedlockes loyall bond, / Bold Marinell with Florimell the fayre […]

词形变化

wedlocks plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bedlock break wedlock out of wedlock
相关词
bridelock

词源

From Middle English wedlok, wedlocke (“wedlock, marriage, matrimony”), from Old English wedlāc (“marriage vow, pledge, plighted troth, wedlock”). By surface analysis, wed + -lock.
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