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WEDDING CEREMONY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wedding ceremony mean?
• WEDDING CEREMONY (noun)
The noun WEDDING CEREMONY has 1 sense:
1. the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed
Familiarity information: WEDDING CEREMONY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("wedding ceremony" is a kind of...):
ceremonial; ceremonial occasion; ceremony; observance (a formal event performed on a special occasion)
Context examples
Unmarried to him, this would never grieve me; but can I let him complete his calculations—coolly put into practice his plans—go through the wedding ceremony?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of returning home.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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