wedding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛdɪŋ/
homophone: wetting (flapping)
homophone: whetting (flapping, wine–whine merger)
rhymes: -ɛdɪŋ
Forms: form: weddings
Etymology: From Middle English wedding, weddynge, from Old English weddung (“betrothal, espousal”), equivalent to wed + -ing. Cognate with Middle Dutch weddinghe.
Senses: examples: text: Her announcement was quite a surprise, coming a month after she published the words "I hate weddings with a passion and a fury I can only partially explain rationally."
text: Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz.
ref: 1858, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Wedding-Day”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish:
text: Rumor has it that there will be a wedding in our village ere the daisies are in bloom.
ref: 1909, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter XXIV, in Anne of Avonlea:
text: After the wedding there was singing and concertina-playing in the laundry till late evening.
ref: 1922, Anton Chekhov, “The Cook's Wedding”, in Constance Garnett, transl., The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories:
synonyms: nuptials
glosses: A marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.
examples: text: The wedding of our three companies took place last week.
text: 1900, Eve Emery Dye, McLoughlin and Old Oregon, 2005 facsimile edition, page 56,
That wedding of the fur companies is historic.
text: Significantly, Grand Metropolitan elaborates upon the wedding of tradition and consumer narcissim that is the distinctively British version of private-sector collective representations;[…].
ref: 1991, Richard M. Merelman, Partial Visions: Culture and Politics in Britain, Canada, and the United States, page 162:
text: The wedding of commercial with universal banking would result in more careful project evaluation and selection and a closer monitoring of existing loans.
ref: 2000, Benton E. Gup, New Financial Architecture: Banking Regulation in the 21st Century, page 221:
text: The wedding of black brass bands and orchestras to jubilee concert companies was a consolidation that favored both promoters and musicians.
ref: 2002, Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff, Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895, page 176:
glosses: The joining of two or more parts.
Derived terms: Birds’ Wedding
black wedding
blood wedding
destination wedding
diamond wedding
double wedding
frog wedding
golden wedding
have been to an Irish wedding
Italian wedding soup
like a spare prick at a wedding
monkey's wedding
pearl wedding
penny wedding
penny-wedding
red wedding
ruby wedding
shotgun wedding
silver wedding
sparrows' wedding
the bride at every wedding
the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral
wedding band
wedding bells
wedding breakfast
wedding cake
wedding-cake
wedding card
wedding chest
wedding-day
wedding day
wedding dress
wedding finger
wedding gift
wedding-goer
wedding gown
wedding journey
weddingless
wedding march
wedding night
wedding party
wedding planner
wedding present
wedding reception
wedding registry
wedding-ring
wedding ring
wedding shirt
wedding shower
wedding song
wedding soup
wedding tackle
wedding vow
wedding waltz
weddingwear
weddingzilla
white wedding
Related terms: sense: Related terms
word: bride
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word: engagement
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word: groom
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word: honeymoon
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word: hymeneal
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word: marriage
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word: marry
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word: wed