Wedding
name, noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.
"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.""
- 2 the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony wordnet
- 3 The joining of two or more parts. idiomatic
"The wedding of our three companies took place last week."
- 4 the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed wordnet
- 5 a party of people at a wedding wordnet
- 1 present participle and gerund of wed form-of, gerund, participle, present
"Accordingly the Prince, accepting her largesse, sought the King to whom he had pledged his parents (and they were still with him in all weal and welfare) and going in to him made his salam and kissed ground and told him the whole tale of the past and the conditions of death or marriage he had made with the King's daughter and of his wedding her after overcoming her in contention."
- 2 To participate in a wedding. humorous, intransitive
""Snowball" was the name of this good steed, and great care had evidently been taken in her grooming to make her worthy of her name, her bridle being also gaily decked with coloured ribbons, for, as John said, when attending to these duties, "You don't go out a weddinging every day, do you, old gal?""
- 1 A district of Mitte borough, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.; A former borough of Berlin, Germany. countable, historical, uncountable
- 2 A district of Mitte borough, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.; A former village near Berlin, Germany. countable, historical, uncountable
- 3 A surname. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"Food and drink were served in such profusion at the wedding that the bride and groom began to wonder if they should not have invited more guests."
Etymology
From Middle English wedding, weddynge, from Old English weddung (“betrothal, espousal”), equivalent to wed + -ing. Cognate with Middle Dutch weddinghe.
A conversion of wedding (noun) to a verb.
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