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hymeneals

hymeneals is the plural of hymeneal.

Meaning of hymeneal

Noun

hymeneal (plural hymeneals)

  1. A hymn, song or poem in honour of a wedding.
    • For her white virgins hymeneals sing, / To sounds of heav'nly harps she dies away, / And melts in visions of eternal day.1717, Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard

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Noun

hymeneals pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Nuptials.
    • “Indeed she will have to do without me,” he added, thinking rather of his studies in Carrara, than of his Barchester hymeneals.1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, →ISBN, page 165
    • To this he wrote an answer as short, expressing his ardent wishes that those winter hymeneals might produce nothing but happiness, and saying that he would not be in town many days before he knocked at the door of No. 52, Grosvenor Place.1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn, the Irish Member, 2006 Gutenberg eBook Edition

Questions about hymeneals

What does hymeneals mean?
Hymeneals means nuptials.
What is hymeneals the plural of?
Hymeneals is the plural of hymeneal.
What part of speech is hymeneals?
Hymeneals is a noun.

Words near hymeneals in the dictionary

  1. hymenal
  2. hymenally challenged
  3. hymenate
  4. hymeneal
  5. hymeneally
  6. hymeneals
  7. hymenean
  8. hymeneans
  9. hymenectomies
  10. hymenectomy
  11. hymenia

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