WEDDING DAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wedding day mean? 

• WEDDING DAY (noun)
  The noun WEDDING DAY has 1 sense:

1. the day of a wedding

  Familiarity information: WEDDING DAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEDDING DAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The day of a wedding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("wedding day" is a kind of...):

day (a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance)

Meronyms (parts of "wedding day"):

wedding night (the night after the wedding when bride and groom sleep together)

 Context examples 

Their sister's wedding day arrived; and Jane and Elizabeth felt for her probably more than she felt for herself.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

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)

Thank you all for my happy wedding day.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This full moon falls over a weekend, so February 8 (or February 9, depending on your time zone) might even be your wedding day. How exciting! That would be great timing.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Thursday was to be the wedding day, and on Wednesday Miss Lucas paid her farewell visit; and when she rose to take leave, Elizabeth, ashamed of her mother's ungracious and reluctant good wishes, and sincerely affected herself, accompanied her out of the room.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

There was the garnet set which Aunt March wore when she came out, the pearls her father gave her on her wedding day, her lover's diamonds, the jet mourning rings and pins, the queer lockets, with portraits of dead friends and weeping willows made of hair inside, the baby bracelets her one little daughter had worn, Uncle March's big watch, with the red seal so many childish hands had played with, and in a box all by itself lay Aunt March's wedding ring, too small now for her fat finger, but put carefully away like the most precious jewel of them all.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)