Word Meanings - WEDDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials. Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz. Longfellow. Note: Certain anniversaries of an unbroken marriage have received fanciful, and more or less appropriate, names.

Additional info about word: WEDDING

Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials. Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz. Longfellow. Note: Certain anniversaries of an unbroken marriage have received fanciful, and more or less appropriate, names. Thus, the fifth anniversary is called the wooden wedding; the tenth, the tin wedding; the fifteenth, the crystal wedding; the twentieth, the china wedding; the twenty-fifth, the silver wedding; the fiftieth, the golden wedding; the sixtieth, the diamond wedding. These anniversaries are often celebrated by appropriate presents of wood, tin, china, silver, gold, etc., given by friends. Note: Wedding is often used adjectively; as, wedding cake, wedding cards, wedding clothes, wedding day, wedding feast, wedding guest, wedding ring, etc. Let her beauty be her wedding dower. Shak. Wedding favor, a marriage favor. See under Marriage.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WEDDING)

• Marriage
• Nuptials
• matrimony
• espousals
• wedding
• wedlock

Related words: (words related to WEDDING)

• MATRIMONY
  1. The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock. If either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confessit. Book of Com. Prayer 2. A kind of game at
• WEDLOCK
  lac a gift, an offering. See Wed, n., and cf. Lake, v. i., 1. The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. "That blissful yoke . . . that men clepeth spousal, or wedlock." Chaucer. For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord
• MARRIAGEABILITY
  The quality or state of being marriageable.
• WEDDAHS
  See VEDDAHS
• WEDDING
  Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials. Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz. Longfellow. Note: Certain anniversaries of an unbroken marriage have received fanciful, and more or less appropriate, names.
• MARRIAGE
  1. The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony. Marriage is honorable in all. Heb. xiii. 4. 2. The marriage vow or contract. Chaucer. 3. A feast made on
• WEDDED
  1. Joined in wedlock; married. Let wwedded dame. Pope. 2. Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage. "Wedded love." Milton.
• MARRIAGEABLE
  Fit for, or capable of, marriage; of an age at which marriage is allowable. -- Mar"riage*a*ble*ness, n.
• WEDDER
  See SCOTT
• INTERMARRIAGE
  Connection by marriage; reciprocal marriage; giving and taking in marriage, as between two families, tribes, castes, or nations.
• FRANK-MARRIAGE
  A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife , and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten. Blackstone.
• REMARRIAGE
  A second or repeated marriage.