Hypertext Webster Gateway: "nuptials"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Nuptial \Nup"tial\, n.; pl. {Nuptials}.
Marriage; wedding; nuptial ceremony; -- now only in the
plural.
Celebration of that nuptial, which We two have sworn
shall come. --Shak.
Preparations . . . for the approaching nuptials.
--Prescott.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
nuptials
n : the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is
performed [syn: {wedding}, {wedding ceremony}]
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