marriage noun (TWO PEOPLE) B1 [ C or U ] a legally accepted relationship between two people in which they live together, or the official ceremony that results in this: They had a long and happy marriage. She went to live in another state after the break-up of her marriage. She has two daughters by her first marriage.
Examples of Formal Regions. 1  States-Texas, Florida, South Carolina, etc. 2  Countries-US, Mexico, Canada, etc. 3  Cities-Austin, Dallas, Houston, etc. 4  The area of town where the wealthiest people live. 5  The Sahara Desert of Africa. 6  US city where more than 50% of the residents speak Spanish.
Individual countries comprise formal regions, as do areas of common religion or climate, or areas in which rice or fishing dominate. Each such formal region is defined by a set of criteria that is reasonably common or homogeneous across an area.his is because the northern portion of what is now Vietnam participated in the civilization shared by what is now China, Japan, and Korea; the southern areas of Vietnam were more closely linked with the civilization shared by South Asia/India and its neighbors.