golden wedding
golden wedding noun: the golden anniversary of a wedding, the 50th anniversary of a marriage.
Noun
golden wedding (plural golden weddings)
- The golden anniversary of a wedding, the 50th anniversary of a marriage.
- ‘Perhaps you have no golden or silver wedding in England?’
‘I confess I never heard of any thing of the kind,’ said Hamilton...
‘To be fifty years married and to have a golden wedding, is a sort of event in a family.’1850, Jemima von Tautphoeus, Initials, volume I, page 121 - ...in fact the paper, wooden and tin wedding presents are seldom anything but jokes. Crystal is the earliest that is likely to be taken seriously by the gift-bearers. Silver is always serious, and the golden wedding a quite sacred event.1922, Emily Post, chapter XXII, in Etiquette
- ‘Perhaps you have no golden or silver wedding in England?’
Forms of golden wedding
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Questions about golden wedding
- What does golden wedding mean?
- Golden wedding means the golden anniversary of a wedding, the 50th anniversary of a marriage.
- What part of speech is golden wedding?
- Golden wedding is a noun.
- What is the plural of golden wedding?
- The plural of golden wedding is golden weddings.
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