Word.ws English Dictionary

double wedding

double wedding noun: a double ceremony where two engaged couples, often friends or siblings, arrange for two simultaneous or consecutive weddings.

Noun

double wedding (plural double weddings)

  1. A double ceremony where two engaged couples, often friends or siblings, arrange for two simultaneous or consecutive weddings.
    • Instead of a dénoûment consisting in the establishment of a common-school system in Acadian Louisiana, we have a double wedding; the artist was too much for the theorist, and we are heartily glad of it.1888 June, “Recent American Fiction”, in The Atlantic

Forms of double wedding

pluraldouble weddings

Questions about double wedding

What does double wedding mean?
Double wedding means a double ceremony where two engaged couples, often friends or siblings, arrange for two simultaneous or consecutive weddings.
What part of speech is double wedding?
Double wedding is a noun.
What is the plural of double wedding?
The plural of double wedding is double weddings.

Words near double wedding in the dictionary

  1. double up
  2. double Us
  3. double vertical line
  4. double vertical lines
  5. double vision
  6. double wedding
  7. double weddings
  8. double whammies
  9. double whammy
  10. double whole
  11. double whole note

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: double wedding (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “double wedding.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/double_wedding. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.