English Online Dictionary. What means wedding? What does wedding mean?
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwɛdɪŋ/
- Homophones: wetting (flapping); whetting (flapping, wine–whine merger)
- Rhymes: -ɛdɪŋ
- Hyphenation: wed‧ding
Etymology 1
From Middle English wedding, weddynge, from Old English weddung (“betrothal, espousal”), equivalent to wed + -ing. Cognate with Middle Dutch weddinghe.
Verb
wedding
- present participle and gerund of wed
Noun
wedding (plural weddings)
- Marriage ceremony; ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.
- Joining of two or more parts.
- The wedding of our three companies took place last week.
- 1900, Eve Emery Dye, McLoughlin and Old Oregon, 2005 facsimile edition, page 56,
- That wedding of the fur companies is historic.
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Further reading
- wedding on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
Conversion of wedding (noun) to verb.
Verb
wedding (third-person singular simple present weddings, present participle weddinging, simple past and past participle weddinged)
- (intransitive, humorous) To participate in a wedding.