wedding
/ˈwɛdɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.83 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.
Example Sentences
- "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.""
- "Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz."
- "Rumor has it that there will be a wedding in our village ere the daisies are in bloom."
- "After the wedding there was singing and concertina-playing in the laundry till late evening."
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English wedding, weddynge, from Old English weddung (“betrothal, espousal”), equivalent to wed + -ing. Cognate with Middle Dutch weddinghe.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwɛdɪŋ/
- British English: /ˈwɛdɪŋ/