civil partnershipnoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˌsɪv.əl ˈpɑːt.nə.ʃɪp/us/ˌsɪv.əl ˈpɑːrt.nɚ.ʃɪp/in the UK, a legal relationship between two people of the same sex that gives them the same rights as people who are married
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships
- adulteress
- affinal
- as husband and wife idiom
- be an item idiom
- be shacked up idiom
- hitched
- honest
- husband
- intermarriage
- involvement
- marriage equality
- marriage guidance
- marriageable
- marry
- marry in haste, repent at leisure idiom
- matrimonial
- shack up
- something
- together
- wedlock
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