Noun: wedding
| Singular | wedding |
| Plural | weddings |
Sample Sentences
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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."
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]
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The wedding of our three companies took place last week.
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1900, Eve Emery Dye, McLoughlin and Old Oregon, 2005 facsimile edition, page 56,
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That wedding of the fur companies is historic.
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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:]
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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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The wedding of black brass bands and orchestras to jubilee concert companies was a consolidation that favored both promoters and musicians. [2002, Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff, Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895, page 176:]
Nouns inflected like wedding
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English wedding, weddynge, from Old English weddung (“betrothal, espousal”), equivalent to wed + -ing. Cognate with Middle Dutch weddinghe. See: Old English Nouns '
weddung'.