WEDDING RING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wedding ring mean? 

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

1. a ring (usually plain gold) given to the bride (and sometimes one is also given to the groom) at the wedding

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEDDING RING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A ring (usually plain gold) given to the bride (and sometimes one is also given to the groom) at the wedding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

wedding band; wedding ring

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

band; ring (jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger)

 Context examples 

"Certainly. Go, dear, I forgot that you have any home but this," and Mrs. March pressed the white hand that wore the wedding ring, as if asking pardon for her maternal covetousness.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When the chaplain and the sisters had left me alone with my husband—oh, Lucy, it is the first time I have written the words 'my husband'—left me alone with my husband, I took the book from under his pillow, and wrapped it up in white paper, and tied it with a little bit of pale blue ribbon which was round my neck, and sealed it over the knot with sealing-wax, and for my seal I used my wedding ring.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

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)