Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

walking marriage

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.58 in modern English

Syllables: walk-ing -mar-riage
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In Mosuo culture, a relationship in which the partners do not live in the same household, and their children are raised by their mothers and the families of the mothers.

Inflected Forms

walking marriages (plural)

Questions

What does walking marriage mean?: In Mosuo culture, a relationship in which the partners do not live in the same household, and their children are raised by their mothers and the families of the mothers.

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