Last Updated：2025/11/29

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

Gretna Green

Edit Histories（0）

Source Word

Gretna Green

Adjective

not-comparable of a marriage

(of a marriage) carried out quickly and secretively in a jurisdiction that is not the bride or groom's own.

Japanese Meaning

新郎新婦の居住地や本来の管轄外の場所で、法律や規制が緩い地域（伝統的にはスコットランドの一部）において、急いで秘密裏に執り行われる結婚のことを指します。

What is this buttons?

They arranged a Gretna Green marriage to escape the long legal waiting period.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼らは長い法定の待機期間を避けるために、花嫁や花婿の本国の管轄外で素早く密かに行われる結婚を手配した。

Sense（1）

(of a marriage) carried out quickly and secretively in a jurisdiction that is not the bride or groom's own.

There has been a Gretna Green marriage in Brockville. Miss Mary Ann Hall and a Mr. Underwood ran away to Ogdensburg (New York) and got married last week and was back again the night before last.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Login / Sign up

　

Download the app!

DiQt

Free

★★★★★★★★★★