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Marrying vs Spinster - What's the difference?

marrying | spinster |

As nouns the difference between marrying and spinster

is that marrying is a marriage while spinster is a woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.

As a verb marrying

is .

marrying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A marriage.
  • * 2003 , Diana Wynne Jones, The Crown of Dalemark (page 116)
    • After that there were marryings and intermarryings, the way there are, and Kredindale gets related to half the earls of the North.

    spinster

    English

    (wikipedia spinster)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.
  • * Coke
    • If a gentlewoman be termed a spinster , she may abate the writ.
  • One who spins (puts a spin on) a political media story so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance; a spin doctor, spin merchant or spin master.
  • (obsolete) Someone whose occupation was spinning thread.
  • * ~1601 , William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night , act II, scene IV:
    • The spinsters and the knitters in the sun.
  • (obsolete) A woman of evil life and character; so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction.
  • (rare) A spider; an insect (such as a silkworm) which spins thread.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Synonyms

    * old maid

    See also

    * bachelor * widow * divorcee ----