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prewedding

prewedding adjective: occurring before or in anticipation of a wedding.

Adjective

prewedding (not comparable)

  1. Occurring before or in anticipation of a wedding
    • Janet Bergeson, center, held a prewedding party for her son Nils and his bride-to-be, Emily O'Hara.2007 June 2, Martin Stolz, “Split Over the Mormon Church, but Maintaining Some Ties”, in New York Times

Forms of prewedding

alternative formpre-wedding

Origin of prewedding

From pre- + wedding.

Questions about prewedding

What does prewedding mean?
Prewedding means occurring before or in anticipation of a wedding.
What part of speech is prewedding?
Prewedding is an adjective.

Words near prewedding in the dictionary

  1. prewatching
  2. preweaned
  3. preweaning
  4. preweanling
  5. preweanlings
  6. prewedding
  7. preweigh
  8. preweighed
  9. preweight
  10. preweighted
  11. preweighting

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