marriageable age
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In India, the legal marriageable age is 21 for men and 18 for women.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2023
The biggest gap between men and women of marriageable age, defined here as 15 to 29, will come in the next few decades, as the babies of the past decade grow up.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2018
The girl was almost two years shy of marriageable age, though, and so the wedding had to wait.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2017
The neighborhood still has young children and their parents, as well as elderly people, but there are few single adults of marriageable age.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2015
All ladies of noble blood, all of marriageable age.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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