| 单词 | nuptials |
| 释义 | nuptials (once / 3541 pages) n When you go to someone's wedding, you are attending their nuptials, a fancier way of talking about a wedding ceremony. If you take away the "s" in nuptials, it is used like an adjective to mean "related to marriage." You could say that your newlywed friends are living in nuptial bliss, or if you like them less, that their wedding, with fireworks and a horse-drawn carriage, was a perfect example of nuptial excess. WORD FAMILYnuptials USAGE EXAMPLESSing of the two friends, both women, who fretted that their upcoming nuptials might be controversial: because, they explained, they didn’t like cake! Time(Dec 23, 2016) Very often it is, but whether they are feting a birthday, an anniversary, impending nuptials or a new job, people dress up to dine here. Seattle Times(Dec 22, 2016) With nine nuptials, she was the celebrity world's most prolific knot-tier. BBC(Dec 19, 2016) n the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed Syn|Hyper hymeneals, wedding, wedding ceremony ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, ceremony, observance a formal event performed on a special occasion |
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