Wedding
['wedɪŋ] or ['wɛdɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed.
(noun.) a party of people at a wedding.
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wed
(n.) Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Marriage, nuptials, espousals, bridal, marriage ceremony, nuptial rites.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Espousals, marriage, nuptials,[See MARRIAGE]
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To attend a wedding in your dream, you will speedily find that there is approaching you an occasion which will cause you bitterness and delayed success. For a young woman to dream that her wedding is a secret is decidedly unfavorable to character. It imports her probable downfall. If she contracts a worldly, or approved marriage, signifies she will rise in the estimation of those about her, and anticipated promises and joys will not be withheld. If she thinks in her dream that there are parental objections, she will find that her engagement will create dissatisfaction among her relatives. For her to dream her lover weds another, foretells that she will be distressed with needless fears, as her lover will faithfully carry out his promises. For a person to dream of being wedded, is a sad augury, as death will only be eluded by a miracle. If the wedding is a gay one and there are no ashen, pale-faced or black-robed ministers enjoining solemn vows, the reverses may be expected. For a young woman to dream that she sees some one at her wedding dressed in mourning, denotes she will only have unhappiness in her married life. If at another's wedding, she will be grieved over the unfavorable fortune of some relative or friend. She may experience displeasure or illness where she expected happiness and health. The pleasure trips of others or her own, after this dream, may be greatly disturbed by unpleasant intrusions or surprises. See Marriage and Bride.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one one undertakes to become nothing and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A trade in which the bride is generally given away, and the groom is often sold.
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Examples
- But if you have followed recent events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his wedding? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Undraw the curtains, my dear girl,' said Eugene, after a while, 'and let us see our wedding-day. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was crowded now with the family and the wedding guests. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He would like the wedding to be the day after tomorrow, quite privately; at the church of his parish--not at ours. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Six weeks ago, at the American consul's, in Paris, a very quiet wedding of course, for even in our happiness we didn't forget dear little Beth. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Yet she stood subjected through the wedding service. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Dear Laura was to pay him another little visit in her wedding-dress the next morning, and to be kind enough, again, not to make a scene. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And yet, from the very first day of our wedding, you came and blighted it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The two wedding parties met constantly in each other's apartments. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But how would you have a wedding arranged? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- What thinkst thou of gaining fair lands and livings, by wedding a Saxon, after the fashion of the followers of the Conqueror? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Meg's wedding has turned all our heads, and we talk of nothing but lovers and such absurdities. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Traddles and Sophy, and Doctor and Mrs. Strong, were the only guests at our quiet wedding. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Yes, she said, and wearing only my wedding shirt. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Ah, now, you'd hardly believe it, but I don't care for gay weddings, said Timothy Fairway, his eyes again travelling round. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Good mothers are married over again at their daughters' weddings: and as for subsequent events, who does not know how ultra-maternal grandmothers are? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You be bound to dance at Christmas because 'tis the time o' year; you must dance at weddings because 'tis the time o' life. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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