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newlyweds

newlyweds is the plural of newlywed.

Meaning of newlywed

Noun

newlywed (plural newlyweds)

  1. A recently married person.
    • The state where most intermarriages took place was Hawaii, where more than four in 10 newlyweds (42.4%) were intermarried.2012 February 16, Ashley Hayes, “Study: Interracial marriage, acceptance growing”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2017

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Noun

newlyweds pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A recently married couple.
    • An unusual custom is followed at Llangennith, when shotguns are fired at a wedding - to scare off evil spirits from the newlyweds.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 258

Questions about newlyweds

What does newlyweds mean?
Newlyweds means a recently married couple.
What is newlyweds the plural of?
Newlyweds is the plural of newlywed.
What part of speech is newlyweds?
Newlyweds is a noun.

Words near newlyweds in the dictionary

  1. Newlyn
  2. Newlyn North
  3. Newlyns
  4. newlywed
  5. newlywedded
  6. newlyweds
  7. Newmachar
  8. newmade
  9. Newmains
  10. newmake
  11. newmakes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: newlyweds (page history and authors); newlywed (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.

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