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NUPTIAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nuptial mean?
• NUPTIAL (adjective)
The adjective NUPTIAL has 1 sense:
1. of or relating to a wedding
Familiarity information: NUPTIAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to a wedding
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
Context example:
marriage vows
Pertainym:
wedding (the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed)
Context examples
The day was fair, the wind favourable; all smiled on our nuptial embarkation.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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