EGAVE

companionate

About 0.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Designating a proposed type of marriage (or other partnership) in which the partners plan to have no children and take on no legal obligations to one another. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. adjective Friendly, companionable.
  3. adjective Pertaining to a (chiefly romantic) relationship that emphasises companionship and mutual respect.

Similar words

friendly companionly committed concubinarian partnerly married faithful antimarriage nonarranged consort

Often followed by

marriage love marriages family ideal and relationship relationships model

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