Definition of Weddeng
Wed"ding (?), n. [AS. wedding.]
Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.
Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and
of Boaz. Longfellow.
&fist; 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.
&fist; 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.
Wed"ding (?), n. [AS. wedding.]
Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.
Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and
of Boaz. Longfellow.
&fist; 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.
&fist; 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
WEDDING, n. A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one,
one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become
supportable.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
WEDDING. The emptying of a neoessary-hovise, particularly
in London. You have been at an Irish wedding,
where black eyes are given instead of favours; saying to
one who has a black eye.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- Marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.
- Joining of two or more parts.
"The wedding of our three companies took place last week."
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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