Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: wed
IPA transcription: [w'ɛd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: wed, wedded
    Meaning: having been taken in marriage
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Wednesday, Midweek, Wed
    Meaning: the fourth day of the week; the third working day
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: marry, get_married, wed, conjoin, hook_up_with, get_hitched_with, espouse
    Meaning: take in marriage
Usage examples
  • 'Wilt thou wed me, farmer's daughter?'
  • "I refuse to wed any maid born in this poor hut," he said.
  • "I will wed no one except the daughter of the king of Naples."
  • 'Wilt thou wed me, farmer's daughter?' he said to the youngest.
  • "Well, better wed over the mixen than over the moor," said Laban Tall, turning his sheep.
  • 'Indeed I will wed thee; a pretty creature is the hoodie,' answered she, and on the morrow they were married.
  • So then, that none should carry off his child, he caused it to be proclaimed, both far and near, by script and trumpet, that he alone should wed the maid, who would bear her in his arms, to the pinnacle of the great and perilous mountain, and that without rest or stay.
  • 'From what one person and another have let fall,' he exclaimed, 'I have contrived to learn that he is in the palace of the king, who keeps him hidden lest anyone should see him; and that to-morrow he is to marry the princess, who, ugly creature that she is, has not been able to find any man to wed her.'