marital status

noun

: the state of being married or not married

—used on official forms to ask if a person is married, single, divorced, or widowed

Please enter your marital status.

Examples of marital status in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Seoulting applicants must provide proof of Seoul residency, marital status and economic activity. — Matthew Tan, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2026

To adjust for noncoverage bias, the voter file was stratified by statehouse district, party, race, gender, marital status, household size, turnout history, age and homeownership. — New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026

Also at the 2026 Emmys, Roach shared cryptic comments about the marital status of his longtime client Zendaya and her partner, Tom Holland. — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026

The ideological fertility gap remained even after controlling for other variables that may influence family size, such as religion, race, income, age, marital status, and education. — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for marital status

• apparatus
• superlattice
• beatus
• flatus
• gratis
• lattice
• rattus
• satis
• stratus