wedding
US: /ˈwɛdɪŋ/
UK: /wˈɛdɪŋ/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
wedding /'wedi /- danh từ
- lễ cưới
Advanced English dictionary
+ nouna marriage ceremony, and the meal or party that usually follows it: a wedding present / dress + a wedding ceremony / reception + Have you been invited to their wedding? + She looked beautiful on her wedding day. + Today is our wedding anniversary. + All her friends could hear wedding bells (= they thought she would soon get married).
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Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 marriage (ceremony), wedding ceremony, nuptials; confarreation:
Our son's wedding was attended by members of the royal family.
2 combining, combination, uniting, union, joining, juncture, blending, blend, allying, alliance, associating, association, marrying, marriage, merging, merger, mingling, intermingling, commingling, coalescing, coalescence, mixing, mixture, intermixing, amalgamating, amalgamation, compounding, compound, alloying, alloy, fusing, fusion, homogenizing, homogenization:
Through her wedding of vision to observation she has produced some truly remarkable paintings.
Collocation
ADJ.
church, registry office | royal | white
VERB + WEDDING
attend, come to, go to | arrange | invite sb to | conduct
The wedding will be conducted by the local vicar.
WEDDING + VERB
take place
The royal wedding will take place in June.
WEDDING + NOUN
day, night | invitation | plans, preparations | date
We haven't set a wedding date yet.
| dress, gown | clothes, outfit, suit | band, ring
She had a plain wedding band on her third finger.
| finger
a ring on her wedding finger
| breakfast, feast | ceremony, service | vows | procession | party, reception | celebrations | speech | cake | gift, present | list
We were choosing what present to buy from the wedding list they'd sent.
| group, guests, party | album, photographs, video | anniversary | bells
(figurative) After going out with her boyfriend for a year, she started talking about wedding bells.
PREP.
at a/the ~
I met her at my brother's wedding.
Concise dictionary
weddings'wedɪŋnoun
+the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed
+the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony
+a party of people at a wedding
wedded|wedding|wedswed
noun
+the fourth day of the week; the third working day
verb
+take in marriage
+perform a marriage ceremony
adj.
+having been taken in marriage
