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betrothed

/bih-trohthd, -trawtht/US // bɪˈtroʊðd, -ˈtrɔθt //UK // (bɪˈtrəʊðd) //

订婚的,订婚的人,订婚,约定的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : engaged to be married: She is betrothed to that young lieutenant.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the person to whom one is engaged: He introduced us to his betrothed.

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Examples

  • Across the globe, millions of boys and girls are betrothed so young they spend the majority of their adolescence already married.

  • Twice widowed by kings and betrothed to a third, her dream is well on its way to becoming reality.

  • Her demand was simple: I will not marry Loras Tyrell (i.e., the “renowned pillow-biter” to whom Papa Tywin has betrothed her).

  • As a young woman, her sister was promised to Luthor Tyrell, while her betrothed was a Targaryen.

  • Noah's—including his barren, adopted daughter Ila, who is betrothed to his son Shem—are.

  • Farther down the gravel-walk strolls a young Frenchman and his fiancée—the mother of his betrothed inevitably at her side!

  • One day her mother heard her singing a popular nautical ballad, on the devotion of a sailor's bride to her betrothed.

  • This evening Rudy and Babette sat together, as betrothed, for the last time at the mill.

  • And, since he was her betrothed, one or two iron-gray hairs in the man's head had turned white, and lines deepened in his face.

  • When the proud senator returned home, he told his wife that he had that day betrothed their daughter.