wed(n = noun.time) midweek, wednesday - the fourth day of the week; the third working day;
is a kind of weekday
1. wed(v = verb.social) conjoin, espouse, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry - take in marriage;
is one way to unify, unite
Derived form noun wedding2
Sample sentences:
Sam and Sue wed
2. wed(v = verb.social) marry, splice, tie - perform a marriage ceremony; "The minister married us on Saturday"; "We were wed the following week"; "The couple got spliced on Hawaii"
is one way to officiate
Derived form noun wedding1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
wed(s = adj.all) wedded - having been taken in marriage;
A pledge; a pawn. Gower. Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]
"Let him be ware, his neck lieth to wed [
1. To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse. [1913 Webster]
"With this ring I thee wed." [1913 Webster]
"I saw thee first, and wedded thee." [1913 Webster]
2. To join in marriage; to give in wedlock. [1913 Webster]
"And Adam, wedded to another Eve,
Shall live with her." [1913 Webster]
3. Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly. [1913 Webster]
"Thou art wedded to calamity." [1913 Webster]
"Men are wedded to their lusts." [1913 Webster]
"[Flowers] are wedded thus, like beauty to old age." [1913 Webster]
4. To take to one's self and support; to espouse. [1913 Webster]
"They positively and concernedly wedded his cause." [1913 Webster]
To contact matrimony; to marry. Shak. [1913 Webster]
wed, v.tr. & intr. (wedding; past and past part. wedded or wed)
1 usu. formal or literary a tr. & intr. marry. b tr. join in marriage.
2 tr. unite (wed efficiency to economy).
3 tr. (as wedded adj.) of or in marriage (wedded bliss).
4 tr. (as wedded adj.) (foll. by to) obstinately attached or devoted (to a pursuit etc.).
Etymology:
OE weddian to pledge f. Gmc
VB marry, wive, take to oneself a wife, be married, be spliced, go off, pair off, wed, espouse, get hitched, lead to the hymeneal altar, take 'for better for worse', give one's hand to, bestow one's hand upon, marry, join, handfast, couple, tie the nuptial knot, give away, give away in marriage, seal, ally, affiance, betroth, publish the banns, bid the banns, be asked in church.