wedding

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Wed Source: opted

2. n. Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials. Source: opted

3. n. the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed Source: wordnet

4. n. the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony Source: wordnet

5. n. a party of people at a wedding Source: wordnet

6. 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. Source: webster

7. Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz.Longfellow. Source: adambom

8. n:100 n. the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed n. a party of people at a wedding Source: ecdict

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