NUPTIALS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nuptials mean? 

• NUPTIALS (noun)
  The noun NUPTIALS has 1 sense:

1. the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed

  Familiarity information: NUPTIALS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NUPTIALS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

hymeneals; nuptials; wedding; wedding ceremony

Hypernyms ("nuptials" is a kind of...):

ceremonial; ceremonial occasion; ceremony; observance (a formal event performed on a special occasion)

 Context examples 

He begins with congratulations on the approaching nuptials of my eldest daughter, of which, it seems, he has been told by some of the good-natured, gossiping Lucases.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Hence was it that the good burghers of Romsey were all in the streets, that gay flags and flowers brightened the path from the nunnery to the church, and that a long procession wound up to the old arched door leading up the bride to these spiritual nuptials.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The marriage of a daughter, which had been the first object of her wishes since Jane was sixteen, was now on the point of accomplishment, and her thoughts and her words ran wholly on those attendants of elegant nuptials, fine muslins, new carriages, and servants.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She was more alive to the disgrace which her want of new clothes must reflect on her daughter's nuptials, than to any sense of shame at her eloping and living with Wickham a fortnight before they took place.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)