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nuptials

Syllables: nup·tials/ˈnʌp.ʃəlz/

nuptials noun: a wedding ceremony.

nuptials: a wedding ceremony
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Noun

nuptials pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A wedding ceremony.
    • A Nimph is marryed to a Fay,
      Great preparations for the Day,
      All Rites of Nuptials they recite you,
      To the Brydall and inuite you.1630, Michael Drayton, The Muses Elizium, Lately diſcouered, by a New Way over Parnassvs, London: Thomas Harper, page 67
    • To Night, to Night, this fatal Moment, novv / Our dreadful Father's Nuptials are preparing, / And I muſt loſe bright Monima for ever.1678, Nat[haniel] Lee, Mithridates King of Pontus, a Tragedy: […], London: […] R[obert] E[veringham] for James Magnes and Rich[ard] Bentley, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1
    Synonyms:
    wedding

nuptials meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

nuptials in Tamil

nuptials, consummation
சடங்கு caṭaṅku

nuptials in Urdu

نکاح, شادی بیاہ

nuptials in Bengali

বিয়ে, পরিণয়

nuptials in Malayalam

വിവാഹം
More languagesFewer languages
nuptials in Persian
سور sur

Examples of nuptials in a sentence

  • I hope you will not think it is any manner of disrespect to your person or merit, that the intended nuptials between us are interrupted.1712 March 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SUNDAY, February 25, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 310...
  • We got hitched many years back / […] / The rains were severe that day / and the wild winds inclement / but the nuptials still took place.2015, John Ngong Kum Ngong, “Nuptials at Vespers”, in Nuptials at Vespers & Other Strains: Poems, Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa...

Synonyms of nuptials

Origin of nuptials

From nuptial, borrowed from Latin nūptiālis (“pertaining to marriage”), from nūptiae (“wedding”) (also plural only), from nūpta, from nūbō (“to marry, to take as husband”), from Proto-Indo-European *sneubho-, *snewbʰ- (“to marry, wed”). Cognate with French noces and Italian nozze.

Questions about nuptials

What does nuptials mean?
Nuptials means a wedding ceremony.
What is nuptials in Tamil?
Nuptials in Tamil is சடங்கு (caṭaṅku). See Nuptials meaning in Tamil.
How do you use nuptials in a sentence?
I hope you will not think it is any manner of disrespect to your person or merit, that the intended nuptials between us are interrupted.
What part of speech is nuptials?
Nuptials is a noun.
How do you pronounce nuptials?
Nuptials is pronounced /ˈnʌp.ʃəlz/.

Words near nuptials in the dictionary

  1. nuptialize
  2. nuptialized
  3. nuptializes
  4. nuptializing
  5. nuptially
  6. nuptials
  7. nuptiate
  8. nuptual
  9. nuptuality
  10. nuptuals
  11. nupur

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nuptials (page history and authors); சடங்கு (Tamil) (page history and authors); nuptials (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nuptials (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nuptials (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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