silver wedding

noun

The silver anniversary of a wedding, the 25th anniversary of a marriage.

OriginGerman Silberhochzeit →
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Meanings

nounsilver wedding (plural silver weddings)

plural silver weddings

  1. The silver anniversary of a wedding, the 25th anniversary of a marriage.

    ‘Perhaps you have no golden or silver wedding in England?’ ‘I confess I never heard of any thing of the kind,’ said Hamilton...

    1850, Jemima von Tautphoeus, Initials, volume I, page 121
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    The Silver Wedding! on some pensive ear From towers remote as sound the silvery bells, To-day from one far unforgotten year A silvery faint memorial music swells.

    1845, Arthur Hugh Clough, Ambarvalia: Poems, London: Chapman and Hall, published 1849, page 28

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
silver feast

Origin

  1. GermanSilberhochzeit
  2. Englishsilver wedding

A calque of German Silberhochzeit or silberne Hochzeit, first attested in 1845.

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