wedding

Syllables: wed·ding/ˈwɛdɪŋ/

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wedding noun: a marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage. Also the present participle and gerund of wed.

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Noun

wedding (plural weddings)

A marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.
- Her announcement was quite a surprise, coming a month after she published the words "I hate weddings with a passion and a fury I can only partially explain rationally."
- Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz.1858, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Wedding-Day”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish
Synonyms:

nuptials
(idiomatic) The joining of two or more parts.
- The wedding of our three companies took place last week.
- That wedding of the fur companies is historic.1900, Eve Emery Dye, McLoughlin and Old Oregon, 2005 facsimile edition, page 56

Verb

wedding (third-person singular simple present weddings, present participle weddinging, simple past and past participle weddinged)

(humorous, intransitive) To participate in a wedding.
- "Snowball" was the name of this good steed, and great care had evidently been taken in her grooming to make her worthy of her name, her bridle being also gaily decked with coloured ribbons, for, as John said, when attending to these duties, "You don't go out a weddinging every day, do you, old gal?"1905, Hubert Garle with George Morland and Percy Fairclough, A driving tour in the Isle of Wight, page 116
- "Where you goin' get weddinged?" she inquired one day. / "We shall be married at the Episcopal Church, Yin Yang,"1909, Daisy E. M. F. Campbell, “Miss Yin Yang, of Shanghai”, in The New England magazine, volume 40

Proper noun capitalized: Wedding

Wedding (countable and uncountable, plural Weddings)

(historical) A former borough of Berlin, Germany.
(historical) A former village near Berlin, Germany.
A surname.

Also used as

wedding is also the present participle and gerund of wed.

wedding meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

wedding in Hindi

marriage ceremony: विवाह vivāh, शादी śādī

wedding in Tamil

marriage ceremony: திருமணம் tirumaṇam, கல்யாணம் kalyāṇam

wedding in Marathi

marriage ceremony: लग्न lagna

wedding in Urdu

marriage ceremony: وِواہ vivāh, شادی śādī

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wedding in Bengali: বিবাহ bibaho, শাদি śadi
wedding in Telugu: వివాహము vivāhamu, వివాహ వేడుక vivāha vēḍuka
wedding in Malayalam: വിവാഹം vivāhaṁ, കല്യാണം kalyāṇaṁ, താലികെട്ട് tālikeṭṭŭ
wedding in Gujarati: લગ્ન lagna
wedding in Assamese: বিয়া bia
wedding in Nepali: विवाह vivāha, बिहे bihe
wedding in Pashto: توى toy, واده wāda
wedding in Tagalog: kasal, boda
wedding in Arabic: عُرْس ʕurs, زِفَاف zifāf
wedding in Malay: pernikahan, perkahwinan
wedding in Indonesian: pernikahan
wedding in Thai: งานแต่งงาน ngaan-dtɛ̀ɛng-ngaan, การแต่งงาน gaan-dtɛ̀ɛng-ngaan
wedding in Vietnamese: đám cưới
wedding in Myanmar: အာဝါဟဝိဝါဟ awaha.wi.waha.

Examples of wedding in a sentence

Rumor has it that there will be a wedding in our village ere the daisies are in bloom.1909, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter XXIV, in Anne of Avonlea:
After the wedding there was singing and concertina-playing in the laundry till late evening.1922, Anton Chekhov, “The Cook's Wedding”, in Constance Garnett, transl., The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories:
Significantly, Grand Metropolitan elaborates upon the wedding of tradition and consumer narcissim that is the distinctively British version of private-sector collective representations;[…].1991, Richard M. Merelman, Partial Visions: Culture and Politics in Britain, Canada, and the United States, page 162:
The wedding of commercial with universal banking would result in more careful project evaluation and selection and a closer monitoring of existing loans.2000, Benton E. Gup, New Financial Architecture: Banking Regulation in the 21st Century, page 221:

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Synonyms of wedding

nuptials

Forms of wedding

Noun
plural	weddings
Verb
third-person singular present	weddings
present participle	weddinging
past participle	weddinged
past	weddinged
Proper noun
plural	Weddings

Plural of wedding: weddings

Origin of wedding

From Middle English wedding, weddynge, from Old English weddung (“betrothal, espousal”), equivalent to wed + -ing. Cognate with Middle Dutch weddinghe.

A conversion of wedding (noun) to a verb.

Words formed from wedding

Phrases with wedding

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Words that rhyme with wedding

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Questions about wedding

What does wedding mean?: Wedding means a marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.
What is wedding in Hindi?: Wedding in Hindi is विवाह (vivāh), शादी (śādī). See Wedding meaning in Hindi.
How do you use wedding in a sentence?: Rumor has it that there will be a wedding in our village ere the daisies are in bloom.
What part of speech is wedding?: Wedding can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce wedding?: Wedding is pronounced /ˈwɛdɪŋ/ (UK).
What is the plural of wedding?: The plural of wedding is weddings.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wedding (page history and authors); Wedding (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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