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[ English

[ Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɛdɪŋ

[ Noun

Singular wedding

Plural weddings

wedding (plural weddings)

1. 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."

2. Joining of two or more parts.

   The wedding of our three companies took place last week.

[ Derived terms

• wedding band, wedding ring
• wedding bells
• wedding cake
• wedding day
• wedding dress, wedding gown
• wedding reception
• wedding vow

[ Translations

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marriage ceremony

Albanian: dasmë sq(sq) Arabic: زواج (zawá:j) m. Bosnian: svadba f. Bulgarian: сватба bg(bg) (svatba) f. Catalan: boda f. Chinese: 婚礼 (hūnlǐ) Croatian: svadba f. Czech: svatba cs(cs) f. Danish: bryllup n. Dutch: bruiloft nl(nl) Estonian: pulm et(et) Finnish: häät fi(fi) pl. French: mariage fr(fr) m., noces fr(fr) German: Hochzeit de(de) f. Guaraní: menda Hungarian: esküvő hu(hu)

Italian: nozze it(it) f., sposalizio it(it) m. Japanese: 結婚式 (けっこんしき, kekkonshiki) Korean: 결혼 (gyeolhon) Kurdish: dawet ku(ku) f., zemawend ku(ku) f. Maltese: tieġ m. Norwegian: bryllup n. Polish: ślub pl(pl) m. Portuguese: casamento pt(pt) m. Russian: свадьба (svád’ba) f. Scottish Gaelic: banais f., pòsadh m. Serbian: Cyrillic: свадба f. Roman: svadba f. Spanish: boda es(es) f., nupcias es(es) f. pl. Swedish: bröllop sv(sv) n. Telugu: వివాహము (vivaahamu), వివాహ వేడుక (vivaaha vEDuka)

joining of two or more parts

Finnish: yhdistäminen fi(fi), liitos, liittäminen

German: Hochzeit de(de) f.

[ Related terms

• bride
• engagement
• groom
• honeymoon
• marriage
• marry
• wed