wedding

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.

   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."

2. 2
   noun

   The joining of two or more parts.

   The wedding of our three companies took place last week.

3. 3
   verb

   present participle and gerund of wed

   Accordingly the Prince, accepting her largesse, sought the King to whom he had pledged his parents (and they were still with him in all weal and welfare) and going in to him made his salam and kissed ground and told him the whole tale of the past and the conditions of death or marriage he had made with the King's daughter and of his wedding her after overcoming her in contention.

4. 4
   verb

   To participate in a wedding.

   "Snowball" was the name of this good steed, and great care had evidently been taken in her grooming to make her worthy of her name, her bridle being also gaily decked with coloured ribbons, for, as John said, when attending to these duties, "You don't go out a weddinging every day, do you, old gal?"

5. 5
   noun

   the act of marrying

6. 6
   noun

   the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed

7. 7
   noun

   a party of people at a wedding

8. 8
   name

   A district of Mitte borough, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Etymology

From Middle English wedding, weddynge, from Old English weddung (“betrothal, espousal”), equivalent to wed + -ing. Cognate with Middle Dutch weddinghe.