be betrothed to somebody old-fashionedSSFMARRYto have promised to marry someone 与某人订婚[定亲]
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be betrothed to somebody• His youngest sonJohnwas to be betrothed to the Count's daughter and heiresspresumptive.• But she was being absurd, she scarcely knew this man and what was it to her who he was betrothed to?
—betroth verb [transitiveT]
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betrothed• He had already said as much to Mistress Philippa when he had met her and her rather effeminatebetrothed.• He needs to get betrothedfast and naturally he wants his little heifer to be rich.• Of course, we had been to London to visit Benjamin's formerbetrothed, Johanna, a sweet girl whom he adored.• Was your heart really broke, then, when your betrothed was killed at Waterloo?
betrothed2 noun
somebody’s betrothedSSFMARRYthe person that someone has agreed to marry 某人的未婚夫[妻]