n.
Pronunciation: ' wed
Function: verb
Inflected Form: wed · ded also wed ; wed · ding
Etymology: Middle English wedden, from Old English weddian; akin to Middle High German wetten to pledge, Old English wedd pledge, Old High German wetti, Gothic wadi, Latin vad-, vas bail, security
Date: before 12th century
transitive verb
1 : to take for wife or husband by a formal ceremony : MARRY
2 : to join in marriage
3 : to unite as if by marriage: as a : to place in close or intimate association <films that made me conscious of the power of wedding image to music ― Gerald Early> b : to link by commitment or custom <was wed to the old ways>
intransitive verb : to enter into matrimony
– wed · der noun