wedding

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A marriage ceremony

   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."
   • Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz.
   • Rumor has it that there will be a wedding in our village ere the daisies are in bloom.
2. 2

   The joining of two or more parts.

   • The wedding of our three companies took place last week.
   • 1900, Eve Emery Dye, McLoughlin and Old Oregon, 2005 facsimile edition, page 56, That wedding of the fur companies is historic.
   • Significantly, Grand Metropolitan elaborates upon the wedding of tradition and consumer narcissim that is the distinctively British version of private-sector collective representations;[…].
3. 3

   present participle and gerund of wed

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   1. 4

      To participate in a wedding.

      • "Where you goin' get weddinged?" she inquired one day. / "We shall be married at the Episcopal Church, Yin Yang,"
      • Getting married is entirely different than getting weddinged.
   2. 5

      A district of Mitte borough, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

   3. 6

      A surname.

The neighborhood