Wed

English

Verb

Wed (third-person singular simple present weds, present participle wedding, simple past and past participle wed or wedded)

1. (transitive) To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.

   The priest wed the couple.

2. (transitive) To take as one's spouse.

   She wed her first love.

3. (intransitive) To take a spouse.
4. (figuratively) To join (more or less permanently)
   • 2008, Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns, page 72:

     [...] the PPS paper proposed a political doctrine that wedded modernization theory to U.S. support for national security states [...].

Synonyms

• marry

Adverbs for Wed

auspiciously; admirably; happily; gaily; blissfully; genially; perfunctorily; passionately.

Thesaurus

affiliate, ally, apply, arrange a match, associate, band together, be in cahoots, be made one, be spliced, become one, bind, bracket, bunch, bunch up, cabal, catch, cement a union, centralize, club, club together, combine, come together, confederate, conjoin, connect, consociate, conspire, contract matrimony, correlate, couple, draw a parallel, equate, espouse, federalize, federate, gang, gang up, get hitched, give away, go in partners, go in partnership, hitch, hook up with, identify, intermarry, interrelate, interwed, join, join forces, join fortunes with, join together, join up with, join with, league, link, make a match, make one, marry, match, mate, miscegenate, nuptial, organize, pair, pair off, parallel, parallelize, partner, relate, relativize, remarry, rewed, splice, stand together, stand up with, take to wife, team up with, team with, throw in with, tie, tie in with, tie up with, unionize, unite, unite in marriage, unite with, wive, yoke

Pronunciation

• enPR: wĕdʹ, IPA: /ˈwɛd/, SAMPA: /"wEd/

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• Rhymes: -ɛd

Etymology

Old English weddian

Translations

to join in matrimony

Arabic: تزوج (ar) (tazawwaja) Armenian: ամուսնացնել (hy) (amusnac’nel) Chinese: Mandarin: 結婚 (cmn), 结婚 (cmn) (jiéhūn) Finnish: vihkiä (fi) (avioliittoon (fi)) French: marier (fr) German: trauen (de), verheiraten (de), vermählen (de)

Japanese: 結婚する (ja) (けっこんする, kekkon-surú) Macedonian: венчава (mk) (vénčava) Persian: پیوند (fa) (peyvand), ازدواج (fa) (ezdevâj), زناشويي (fa) (zanâšōei) Russian: жениться (ru) (ženít’sja), пожениться (ru) (poženít’sja) Vietnamese: cưới (vi)

transitive: to take as one's spouse

Finnish: naida (fi), avioitua (fi) jonkun kanssa, mennä naimisiin (fi) jonkun kanssa, ottaa (fi) puoliso (fi) French: épouser (fr) German: heiraten (de)

Japanese: 結婚する (ja) (けっこんする, kekkon-surú) Macedonian: жени (mk) (žéni) (of men), мажи (mk) (máži) (of women) Romanian: căsători (ro), însura (ro), mărita (ro), cununa (ro)

intransitive: to take a spouse

Armenian: ամուսնանալ (hy) (amusnanal) Finnish: avioitua (fi), mennä naimisiin (fi) German: heiraten (de) Japanese: 結婚する (ja) (けっこんする, kekkon-surú); (male's action) めとる (ja) (metoru) (娶る (ja)) Latin: nubo (la)

Macedonian: се венчава (mk) (se vénčava) (of men), се мажи (mk) (se máži), се жени (mk) (se žéni) (of women) Russian: жениться (ru) (ženít’sja) ( + на + prepositional case, of a man or reflexive), выходить замуж (ru) (vyxodít' zámuž) pf., выйти замуж (ru) (výjti zámuž) pf., ( + за + accusative case, of a woman), (outdated) брать в жёны (ru) (brat' v žóny), взять в жёны (ru) (vzjat' v žóny) (transitive, of a man)

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Dutch: trouwen (nl) Esperanto: geedzigi (straight couple), edzigi or gejedzigi (gay couple), edzinigi (lesbian couple) French: marier (fr) Indonesian: menikahi, menikah Portuguese: casar (pt) Spanish: casar (es), casarse con

Anagrams

• dew , DEW

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Dutch

Verb

Wed

1. first-person singular present indicative of wedden.
2. imperative of wedden.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛt