MARRIAGE CEREMONY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does marriage ceremony mean? 

• MARRIAGE CEREMONY (noun)
  The noun MARRIAGE CEREMONY has 1 sense:

1. the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony

  Familiarity information: MARRIAGE CEREMONY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARRIAGE CEREMONY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

marriage; marriage ceremony; wedding

Context example:

their marriage was conducted in the chapel

Hypernyms ("marriage ceremony" is a kind of...):

rite; ritual (any customary observance or practice)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "marriage ceremony"):

bridal; espousal (archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast)

civil marriage (a marriage performed by a government official rather than by a clergyman)

love match (a marriage for love's sake; not an arranged marriage)

remarriage (the act of marrying again)

 Context examples 

I fear you will compel me to go through a private marriage ceremony, besides that performed at the altar.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I picture my aunt relenting, and blessing us; and Mr. Dick and Doctor Strong being present at the marriage ceremony.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But destiny, in the shape of the Rev. Mr. Nasmyth, came between me and Miss Temple: I saw her in her travelling dress step into a post-chaise, shortly after the marriage ceremony; I watched the chaise mount the hill and disappear beyond its brow; and then retired to my own room, and there spent in solitude the greatest part of the half-holiday granted in honour of the occasion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)