wedding

1. 1.

   the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed

   Synonymswedding ceremonynuptialshymeneals

   Broaderceremony
2. 2.

   the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony

   “their marriage was conducted in the chapel”

   Synonymsmarriagemarriage ceremony

   Broaderritual

   Narrowerbridalcivil marriagelove matchremarriage
3. 3.

   a party of people at a wedding

   Synonymswedding party

   Broaderparty

Other forms of wedding

plural

weddings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wedding

What does wedding mean?

wedding means "the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wedding?

wedding has 2 syllables: wed-ding. The stress falls on "wed". In IPA it is /ˈwɛdɪŋ/.

What is another word for wedding?

Close synonyms include wedding ceremony, nuptials, hymeneals, marriage, marriage ceremony. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wedding a common word?

wedding is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.