golden wedding
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.44 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The golden anniversary of a wedding, the 50th anniversary of a marriage.
Example Sentences
- "‘Perhaps you have no golden or silver wedding in England?’ ‘I confess I never heard of any thing of the kind,’ said Hamilton... ‘To be fifty years married and to have a golden wedding, is a sort of event in a family.’"
- "...in fact the paper, wooden and tin wedding presents are seldom anything but jokes. Crystal is the earliest that is likely to be taken seriously by the gift-bearers. Silver is always serious, and the golden wedding a quite sacred event."