0 a marriage in which the parents choose who their son or daughter will marry --
1 a marriage in which the parents choose the person their son or daughter will marry --
Not only did romantic love have to struggle against the wisdom of arranged marriage.
I don't agree with the idea that arranged marriage will work.
Her dance of smoke evokes the plight of a nun -- confined to a convent to avoid an arranged marriage -- shedding her habit in a momentary grasp at liberation.
Everyone was really baffled by arranged marriages and the fact that my parents had an arranged marriage where they had not seen each other til the wedding day.
There's even the odd arranged marriage to cement relationships between fractious powers.
Some reports indicate that they had met online a few months earlier, others seem to indicate an arranged marriage.
The village elders feared flirtation, romance, violation of the strictures of home, family, and arranged marriage -- offenses that can carry the gravest of sanctions.
By the age of 15, she was in an arranged marriage and soon had five children.
