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say it: WED-ing
wedding is a noun meaning "the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed". It is pronounced /ˈwɛdɪŋ/ — WED-ing. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed
the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony
“their marriage was conducted in the chapel”
a party of people at a wedding
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wedding come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.