wedding

Pluralweddings

1. 1
   marriage ceremonynouncountable

   A ritual or ceremony that officially celebrates the beginning of a marriage.

   Hundreds of guests attended the couple's wedding at the lakeside chapel.

   She has photographed dozens of weddings over the past decade.

   UsageYou go to a wedding and dance at it. For the relationship that follows, use marriage.

   Similarnuptials

2. 2
   joiningnounidiomaticcountable

   The act or result of joining two or more parts together.

   The album achieves a smooth wedding of jazz rhythms and electronic sound.

   Successful product design depends on the wedding of beauty and usefulness.

   UsageUsually a wedding of or the wedding of one thing and another, or one thing with another.

   Similarmarriage, fusion, union, blend

   Note

   Writers have used it of two merging fur companies, of tradition and consumer culture, and of commercial with universal banking. It suits mergers and combinations that are meant to hold, and it borrows the sense of lasting union from the marriage ceremony. The typical subjects are institutions, styles and ideas rather than people.

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   marryingverb

   Present participle and gerund of wed.

   After forty years of wedding couples in the little chapel, the old minister could say the vows from memory.

   The film works by wedding a simple love story to a sharp look at city politics.

   UsageIn figurative use, one thing is wed to or with another: wedding a love story to politics, wedding fruit with cheese.

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