Noun: silver wedding
| Singular | silver wedding |
| Plural | silver weddings |
Sample Sentences
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The Silver Wedding! on some pensive ear
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From towers remote as sound the silvery bells,
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To-day from one far unforgotten year
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A silvery faint memorial music swells. [1845, Arthur Hugh Clough, Ambarvalia: Poems, London: Chapman and Hall, published 1849, page 28:]
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‘Perhaps you have no golden or silver wedding in England?’
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‘I confess I never heard of any thing of the kind,’ said Hamilton... [1850, Jemima von Tautphoeus, Initials, volume I, page 121:]
Nouns inflected like silver 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
A calque of German Silberhochzeit or silberne Hochzeit, first attested in 1845. See: German Nouns '
Silberhochzeit'.