double wedding

noun

A double ceremony where two engaged couples, often friends or siblings, arrange for two simultaneous or consecutive weddings.

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Meanings

noundouble wedding (plural double weddings)

plural double weddings

  1. A double ceremony where two engaged couples, often friends or siblings, arrange for two simultaneous or consecutive weddings.

    Instead of a dénoûment consisting in the establishment of a common-school system in Acadian Louisiana, we have a double wedding; the artist was too much for the theorist, and we are heartily glad of it.

    1888 June, “Recent American Fiction”, in The Atlantic

Translations

German Doppelhochzeit
  • DoppelhochzeitTranslations
Turkish çifte düğün
  • çifte düğünTranslations
Cite this entry
APA

double wedding. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/double%20wedding

MLA

“double wedding.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/double%20wedding. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “double wedding,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/double%20wedding.

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