单词 | golden wedding |
释义 | > as lemmasgolden wedding 11. Designating a particularly important anniversary (now spec. the 50th anniversary) of a significant event, as a wedding, the accession of a monarch, etc. Chiefly in golden anniversary, golden jubilee, golden wedding. Cf. anniversary n. 2a, jubilee n. 3, wedding n. 2b.In early use probably in general sense, ‘important, excellent, remarkable’; cf. sense A. 6a. ΚΠ 1654 J. Ellistone & J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Mysterium Magnum xl. 280 The true Golden Jubilee-year of the Marriage of the Lamb ariseth up among them. 1752 W. Goodall Adventures Capt. Greenland II. iv. vi. 53 Many Days of Feasting and Jollity were spent in the Celebration of this golden Jubilee. 1837 Metropolitan Mag. June 174 The party from Königgratz was accompanied by an old married pair, who celebrated their golden anniversary of fifty years' happy marriage on the same occasion. 1895 Goshen (Indiana) Weekly News 23 Nov. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Frank of Ligonier, celebrated their golden wedding, last night. 1920 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 20 511 Mercy Hospital celebrated its golden anniversary December 28, at which time the nurses home..was dedicated. 1955 Radio Times 22 Apr. 32/3 All this week magicians from all over the world are gathering to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Magic Circle. 1999 BBK (Birkbeck College, Univ. of London) Dec. 18/2 [They] have just celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. 2012 Independent 4 June 5/3 Behind..came the gilded row-barge Gloriana, presented to the Queen in 2002 for her Golden Jubilee. golden wedding b. penny wedding: see penny wedding n. at penny n. Compounds 2. silver wedding [ < German silberhochzeit, silberne hochzeit] , the 25th anniversary of a wedding (see silver n. and adj. Compounds 1e). golden wedding, the 50th anniversary. diamond wedding, the 60th or 75th anniversary (see diamond n. Compounds 5). ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > wedding anniversary wedding-anniversarya1684 silver wedding1849 golden wedding1850 tin wedding1863 pearl wedding1869 wooden wedding1870 diamond wedding1872 ruby wedding1879 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > time of wedding > [noun] > anniversary > specific silver-feast1796 silver wedding1849 golden wedding1850 wooden wedding1870 diamond wedding1872 1850 J. von Tautphœus Initials I. v. 121 ‘Perhaps you have no golden or silver wedding in England?’ ‘I confess I never heard of any thing of the kind,’ said Hamilton... ‘To be fifty years married and to have a golden wedding, is a sort of event in a family.’ 1860 Illustr. London News 24 Nov. 485/3 The celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of Prince William of Hesse and the Princess Charlotte... This ‘golden wedding’, as such an event is called [etc.]. 1874 H. W. Longfellow Hanging of Crane vii It is the Golden Wedding day. < as lemmas |
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