of or pertaining to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
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of, pertaining to, or characteristic of mating or the mating season of animals: nuptial behavior.
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Usually, nuptials.a wedding or marriage.
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Nuptialis always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Origin: 1480–90; (Middle French ) < Latin nuptiālis, equivalent to nupti(ae) marriage, wedding, derivative of nubēre to marry (of a woman); compare nubile
Pronunciation note The pronunciations /ˈnʌptʃuəl/Show Spelled[nuhp-choo-uhl]Show IPA and /ˈnʌpʃuəl/[nuhp-shoo-uhl], by analogy with such words as mutual and actual, are not considered standard.
1490, from L. nuptialis "pertaining to marriage," from nuptiæ "wedding," from nupta, fem. pp. of nubere "take as a husband," related to Gk. nymphe "bride," from PIE *sneubho- "to marry, wed" (cf. O.C.S. snubiti "to love, woo," Czech snoubiti "to seek in marriage," Slovak zasnubit "to betroth").