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I do

I do phrase: a traditional phrase said by each of the prospective spouses during a wedding ceremony in order to accept the marriage.

Phrase

I do

  1. A traditional phrase said by each of the prospective spouses during a wedding ceremony in order to accept the marriage.
    • They'd been pushing for me to get pregnant ever since I said "I do." And now that I was, do you think they were happy? No way.2003, Joanne Kimes, Sanford A. Tisherman, Pregnancy Sucks: What to Do when Your Miracle Makes you Miserable, →ISBN, page 101
    • When she said ‘I do’ at the altar she was deemed to have made herself sexually available to her husband whenever he might wish.2008, Mary Holmes, Gender and Everyday Life, →ISBN, page 75
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see I, do.

I do meaning in Gujarati

I do in Gujarati

traditional phrase said upon acceptance of marriage
કબૂલ kabūl

Questions about I do

What does I do mean?
I do means a traditional phrase said by each of the prospective spouses during a wedding ceremony in order to accept the marriage.
What is I do in Gujarati?
I do in Gujarati is કબૂલ (kabūl). See I do meaning in Gujarati.
What part of speech is I do?
I do is a phrase.

Words near I do in the dictionary

  1. I couldn't have said it better myself
  2. I couldn't of said it better myself
  3. I dare be bound
  4. I declare
  5. I did Nazi that coming
  6. I do
  7. I do declare
  8. I do not care
  9. I do not know it
  10. I don't boil my cabbage twice
  11. I don't care

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