WEDDING PARTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wedding party mean? 

• WEDDING PARTY (noun)
  The noun WEDDING PARTY has 1 sense:

1. a party of people at a wedding

  Familiarity information: WEDDING PARTY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEDDING PARTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A party of people at a wedding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

wedding; wedding party

Hypernyms ("wedding party" is a kind of...):

party (a group of people gathered together for pleasure)

Meronyms (members of "wedding party"):

best man (the principal groomsman at a wedding)

bride (a woman participant in her own marriage ceremony)

bridesmaid; maid of honor (an unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding)

flower girl (a young girl who carries flowers in a (wedding) procession)

bridegroom; groom (a man participant in his own marriage ceremony)

groomsman (a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding)

trainbearer (one who holds up the train of a gown or robe on a ceremonial occasion)