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wedding

[wed-ing]

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noun

the act or ceremony of marrying; marriage; nuptials.

the anniversary of a marriage, or its celebration: They invited guests to their silver wedding.

the act or an instance of blending or joining, especially opposite or contrasting elements: a perfect wedding of conservatism and liberalism.

Business Slang. a merger.

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adjective

of or pertaining to a wedding: the wedding ceremony; a wedding dress.

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Wedding is always a great word to know.

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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

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.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English weddung. See wed, -ing¹

Can be confused: marriage, wedding (see synonym note at marriage).

Synonyms
1. See marriage.

Example Sentences

Women are paying much more attention to the wedding than are men, particularly older women.

The wedding of the week was called off at the last minute.

For the environmentally conscious bride, a traditional wedding dress represents the ultimate in waste.

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Women are paying much more attention to the wedding than are men, particularly older women.

The wedding of the week was called off at the last minute.

For the environmentally conscious bride, a traditional wedding dress represents the ultimate in waste.

I've always wondered what these drones have against wedding parties.

California, wears the proudly anxious air of a man at his daughter's wedding.

How to make your own layered or wrapped wedding invitations.

All you need for this event is a white wedding dress.

She's determined to put a personal stamp on her wedding.

They want to test the relationship first, or would simply rather spend money on a new kitchen than on a wedding.

Yes, she said, she had seen her young husband since the wedding.

Finally a pill to reverse the affects of wedding cake.

Some guayaberas are casual, but others can be extremely formal, fit for the workplace or even a wedding.

How to grow and arrange a hydrangea wedding bouquet.

With wedding season in full swing, you're probably dreading yet another vicious scrum under a ballistic bridal bouquet.

As the wedding season gets into full swing, many brides and bridegrooms are taking a down-home approach.

Besides covering basic necessities, it sometimes pays for a son's wedding or a new roof.

It is understood that there are clearly a few more steps between the wheat and the wedding cake.

But for me, gaining a lifelong, live-in opponent was the icing on the wedding cake.

The whole story makes the missing bow-ties at my wedding look a little less catastrophic.

Which is why everybody likes a wedding more than a funeral, or chocolate more than gum surgery.

We're looking forward to the possible live twittering of the wedding ceremony.

Perhaps a wedding that went terriby wrong for some reason.

If this was the wedding cake, you can only guess what the rest of the wedding looked like.

The formal, traditional wedding is back, in many cases with unprecedented lavishness.

They managed to bring my brother's valuable musical instrument, wedding photos, and baby photos.

Even more crucial, concentrate on the marriage, not the wedding.

In this installment, answers to questions about an invitation without a plus one and wedding gifts.

The extent of sharing was introducing ourselves and telling our home parish and our wedding date at the beginning of the weekend.

Tell them that another example of a ritual is a wedding.

How to make your own seasonal centerpieces for your wedding reception, and bridal bouquets from the garden.

Kip yesterday celebrated the fiftieth anniversay of their wedding.

My father and his second family did not go to my brother's wedding.

When everybody who was anybody was invited to the wedding of one of his daughters, nobody sent regrets.

Scott died this afternoon, the day before the wedding.

She dons her tribe's traditional wedding costume-white moccasins and deer-hide.

Plus, a painter's palette of blossoms worthy of a wedding bouquet.

For example, members of wedding parties will often find themselves on a wedding website.

When it comes to giving thanks for wedding gifts, the medium is the message.

For a wedding present, my mother-in-law sent us a smeary, mimeographed collection of recipes put out by her church group.

Thirty years, two more children and one wedding later, the project finally came to an end.

Includes garden lectures, plant sale, and a traditional wedding ceremony.

He's been creating designer cakes for about five years, and will make his own wedding cake later this month.

Get divorced, or altenatively engaged with a huge wedding to plan, add a year.

Extracting enough gold to make a typical wedding ring, for example, can generate three tonnes of mining waste.

The wedding marked a girl's transition to womanhood.

Good luck with the wedding planning and about where bipolar comes fromit's complicated.

Everybody goes crazy looking for it because the wedding can't go on without.

Planning what foods to serve at a wedding reception is a big deal-and can be a big chunk of your budget.

Someone's whole wedding is on this one tape that could easily be erased by a magnet.

We returned once for my brother's wedding and will go this year on a short trip to see him and his newly expanded family.

Wait and let economics achieves its magic: in one generation, when all these boys reach wedding age, power will shift to girls.

The only way people could get to our wedding was by dogsled and snowmobile.

She is surrounded by photographs of her grandchildren and one from her wedding day.

Wedding organisers refused to lend them loudspeakers.

What appears to be part of a spring wedding bouquet is actually a nest for a rare species of solitary bee, a.

He was unable to attend a brother's wedding and a friend's funeral.

But amid the triumphant tales of e-mails that end in wedding bells, a growing number of online daters are voicing complaints.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to marry (another person) in a formal ceremony.

to unite (a couple) in marriage or wedlock; marry.

to bind by close or lasting ties; attach firmly: She wedded herself to the cause of the poor.

to blend together or unite inseparably: a novel that weds style and content perfectly.

verb (used without object)

to contract marriage; marry.

to become united or to blend: a building that will wed with the landscape.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English wedde, Old English weddian to pledge; cognate with German wetten to bet, Old Norse vethja to pledge

Related forms

in·ter·wed, verb (used without object), -wed or -wed·ded, -wed·ding.

re·wed, verb, -wed·ded, -wed·ding.

un·wed, adjective

Synonyms
4. combine, fuse, merge.

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World English Dictionary

wedding (ˈwɛdɪŋ)

—n
1.	a. the act of marrying or the celebration of a marriage
	b. (as modifier): wedding day
2.	the anniversary of a marriage (in such combinations as silver wedding or diamond wedding)
3.	the combination or blending of two separate elements

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Word Origin & History

wed

O.E. weddian "to pledge, covenant to do something, marry," from P.Gmc. *wadjojanan (cf. O.N. veðja "to bet, wager," O.Fris. weddia "to promise," Goth. ga-wadjon "to betroth"), from PIE base *wadh- "to pledge, to redeem a pledge" (cf. L. vas, gen. vadis "bail, security," Lith. vaduoti "to redeem a

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pledge"). Sense remained "pledge" in other Gmc. languages (cf. Ger. Wette "bet, wager"); development to "marry" is unique to Eng.

wedding

O.E. weddung "state of being wed" (see wed). Meaning "ceremony of marriage" is recorded from c.1300; the usual O.E. word for the ceremony was bridelope, lit. "bridal run," in reference to conducting the bride to her new home. Wedding cake is recorded from 1648; as a style of

architecture, attested from 1879.

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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

wedding

see shotgun wedding.