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wedding 音标拼音: [w'ɛdɪŋ] n. 婚礼,结婚,结婚仪式,结合 婚礼,结婚,结婚仪式,结合 wedding n 1: the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed [ synonym: { wedding}, { wedding ceremony}, { nuptials}, { hymeneals}] 2: the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony; " their marriage was conducted in the chapel" [ synonym: { marriage}, { wedding}, { marriage ceremony}] 3: a party of people at a wedding [ synonym: { wedding}, { wedding party}] Wedding \ Wed" ding\, n. [ AS. wedding.] Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials. [ 1913 Webster] Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz. -- Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Wedding is often used adjectively; as, wedding cake, wedding cards, wedding clothes, wedding day, wedding feast, wedding guest, wedding ring, etc. [ 1913 Webster] Let her beauty be her wedding dower. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] { Wedding favor}, a marriage favor. See under { Marriage}. [ 1913 Webster]
Wed \ Wed\, v. t. [ imp. { Wedded}; p. p. { Wedded} or { Wed}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Wedding}.] [ OE. wedden, AS. weddian to covenant, promise, to wed, marry; akin to OFries. weddia to promise, D. wedden to wager, to bet, G. wetten, Icel. ve[ eth] ja, Dan. vedde, Sw. v[ aum] dja to appeal, Goth. gawadj[= o] n to betroth. See { Wed}, n.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse. [ 1913 Webster] With this ring I thee wed. -- Bk. of Com. Prayer. [ 1913 Webster] I saw thee first, and wedded thee. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To join in marriage; to give in wedlock. [ 1913 Webster] And Adam, wedded to another Eve, Shall live with her. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly. [ 1913 Webster] Thou art wedded to calamity. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Men are wedded to their lusts. -- Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster] [ Flowers] are wedded thus, like beauty to old age. -- Cowper. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To take to one' s self and support; to espouse. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] They positively and concernedly wedded his cause. -- Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster] 87 Moby Thesaurus words for " wedding": Anschluss, Gretna Green wedding, addition, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alliance, amalgamation, assimilation, association, banns, blend, blending, bridal, bridal suite, bridechamber, cabal, cartel, centralization, chuppah, church wedding, civil ceremony, civil wedding, coalescence, coalition, combination, combine, combo, composition, confederacy, confederation, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidation, conspiracy, ecumenism, elopement, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, epithalamium, espousals, espousement, federalization, federation, forced marriage, fusion, honeymoon, hookup, hymen, hymeneal, hymeneal rites, inclusion, incorporation, integration, junction, junta, league, marriage, meld, melding, merger, nuptial apartment, nuptial mass, nuptial song, nuptials, package, package deal, prothalamium, saffron veil, shotgun wedding, solidification, spousal, spousals, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie- up, unification, union, wedding canopy, wedding song, wedding veil |
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