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wedding-day

wedding-day is the dated form of wedding day.

Meaning of wedding day

Noun

wedding day (plural wedding days)

  1. The day or date when a couple weds each other, initiating marriage.
    • John discovered himself to his parents, and Elizabeth to hers, and the wedding-day was soon fixed, and such a wedding was never seen; before or since in the island of Rügen[.]1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 312
  2. (dated) A wedding anniversary.
    • ... both Mr. and Mrs. Giblett returned it , and came to a party which we had at our house , according to annual custom , for the purpose of celebrating our Wedding day[…]1816, George HARROWER, The Refuter Refuted: Or, a Reply to Mr. Giblett's Pamphlet; Entitled, A Refutation of the Calumnies of G. Harrower, Etc, page 40

Forms of wedding-day

pluralwedding-days

Questions about wedding-day

What is wedding-day the dated form of?
Wedding-day is the dated form of wedding day.

Words near wedding-day in the dictionary

  1. wedding vows
  2. wedding waltz
  3. wedding waltzes
  4. wedding-cake
  5. wedding-cakes
  6. wedding-day
  7. wedding-days
  8. wedding-goer
  9. wedding-goers
  10. wedding-ring
  11. wedding-rings

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