Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
WEDDING
marriage, wedding, marriage ceremony
(noun) the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony; “their marriage was conducted in the chapel”
wedding, wedding ceremony, nuptials, hymeneals
(noun) the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed
wedding, wedding party
(noun) a party of people at a wedding
WED
marry, get married, wed, conjoin, hook up with, get hitched with, espouse
(verb) take in marriage
marry, wed, tie, splice
(verb) perform a marriage ceremony; “The minister married us on Saturday”; “We were wed the following week”; “The couple got spliced on Hawaii”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
wedding
present participle of wed
Noun
wedding (plural weddings)
Marriage ceremony; ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.
Joining of two or more parts.
Etymology 2
Verb
wedding (third-person singular simple present weddings, present participle weddinging, simple past and past participle weddinged)
(intransitive, humorous) To participate in a wedding.
Proper noun
Wedding (plural Weddings)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Wedding is the 15970th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1818 individuals. Wedding is most common among White (92.24%) individuals.
Source: Wiktionary
Wed"ding, n. Etym: [AS. wedding.]
Definition: Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials. Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz. Longfellow.
Note: Certain anniversaries of an unbroken marriage have received fanciful, and more or less appropriate, names. Thus, the fifth anniversary is called the wooden wedding; the tenth, the tin wedding; the fifteenth, the crystal wedding; the twentieth, the china wedding; the twenty-fifth, the silver wedding; the fiftieth, the golden wedding; the sixtieth, the diamond wedding. These anniversaries are often celebrated by appropriate presents of wood, tin, china, silver, gold, etc., given by friends.
Note: Wedding is often used adjectively; as, wedding cake, wedding cards, wedding clothes, wedding day, wedding feast, wedding guest, wedding ring, etc. Let her beauty be her wedding dower. Shak. Wedding favor, a marriage favor. See under Marriage.
WED
Wed (wĂŞd), n. Etym: [AS. wedd; akin to OFries. wed, OD. wedde, OHG, wetti, G. wette a wager, Icel. veedh a pledge, Sw. vad a wager, an appeal, Goth. wadi a pledge, Lith. vaduti to redeem (a pledge), LL. vadium, L. vas, vadis, bail, security, vadimonium security, and Gr. Athlete, Gage a pledge, Wage.]
Definition: A pledge; a pawn. [Obs.] Gower. Piers Plowman. Let him be ware, his neck lieth to wed [i. e., for a security]. Chaucer.
Wed, v. t. [imp. Wedded; p. p. Wedded or Wed; p. pr. & vb. n. Wedding.] Etym: [OE. wedden, AS. weddian to covenant, promise, to wed, marry; akin to OFries. weddia to promise, D. wedden to wager, to bet, G. wetten, Icel. veedhja, Dan. vedde, Sw. vädja to appeal, Goth. gawadjon to betroth. See Wed, n.]
1. To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse. With this ring I thee wed. Bk. of Com. Prayer. I saw thee first, and wedded thee. Milton.
2. To join in marriage; to give in wedlock. And Adam, wedded to another Eve, Shall live with her. Milton.
3. Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly. Thou art wedded to calamity. Shak. Men are wedded to their lusts. Tillotson. [Flowers] are wedded thus, like beauty to old age. Cowper.
4. To take to one's self and support; to espouse. [Obs.] They positively and concernedly wedded his cause. Clarendon.
Wed, v. i.
Definition: To contact matrimony; to marry. "When I shall wed." Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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