WED (wedded, wedding)

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Irregular inflected forms: wedded    , wedding   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wed mean? 

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

1. the fourth day of the week; the third working day

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

• WED (adjective)
  The adjective WED has 1 sense:

1. having been taken in marriage

  Familiarity information: WED used as an adjective is very rare.

• WED (verb)
  The verb WED has 2 senses:

1. take in marriage

2. perform a marriage ceremony

  Familiarity information: WED used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The fourth day of the week; the third working day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Midweek; Wed; Wednesday

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

weekday (any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday))

• WED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having been taken in marriage

Synonyms:

wed; wedded

Similar:

married (joined in matrimony)

• WED (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they wed    ... he / she / it weds   
Past simple: wed    / wedded   
Past participle: wed    / wedded   
-ing form: wedding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take in marriage

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

conjoin; espouse; get hitched with; get married; hook up with; marry; wed

Hypernyms (to "wed" is one way to...):

unify; unite (act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief)

Verb group:

marry; splice; tie; wed (perform a marriage ceremony)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wed"):

inmarry (marry within one's own tribe or group)

mismarry (marry an unsuitable partner)

wive (marry a woman, take a wife)

wive (take (someone) as a wife)

intermarry (marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group)

remarry (marry, not for the first time)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue wed

Derivation:

wedding (the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Perform a marriage ceremony

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

marry; splice; tie; wed

Context example:

The couple got spliced on Hawaii

Hypernyms (to "wed" is one way to...):

officiate (act in an official capacity in a ceremony or religious ritual, such as a wedding)

Verb group:

conjoin; espouse; get hitched with; get married; hook up with; marry; wed (take in marriage)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wed"):

solemnise; solemnize (perform (the wedding ceremony) with proper ceremonies)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

wedding (the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed)

 Context examples 

Then he went out and sent away the company, and said the wedding was at an end, for that he was come back to the kingdom.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"Doesn't it seem very long to wait?" asked Amy, who was in a hurry for the wedding.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Yes: but remember, Jane, you promised to wake with me the night before my wedding.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was a very proper wedding.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Even if Maude loved him, he knew her too well to think that she would wed him without the blessing of her father.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I say, you will come to Belle's wedding, I hope.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Traddles and Sophy, and Doctor and Mrs. Strong, were the only guests at our quiet wedding.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If you have been dating seriously, be ready to get engaged or wed.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It was only the day before our wedding that she said those very words to me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A whole year has gone by since we learned we loved each other, and our wedding day is no nearer.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)