golden wedding anniversary
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2.6
- noun
- /ˈɡoʊldən ˈwɛdɪŋ əˈnɪvərsəri/
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aniversario de oro
- For their golden wedding anniversary, they reminisced about their favorite moments together over the past fifty years.
- celebrate their golden wedding anniversary
Examples
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The couple hosted a big party to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary, inviting friends and family from all over.
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It will be our golden wedding anniversary.
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Circumstantial evidence suggests that she did so because, in part, she visualized the occasion as the golden wedding anniversary that fate had denied her.
Academic text (1997) -
My grandmother, shortly before her golden wedding anniversary, survived 14 years following BC surgery (1960s) for an occluded nipple with no recurrence.
Blog text (7) -
She received a beautiful gift from her children in honor of her and her husband's golden wedding anniversary.
Synonyms
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4.7
A celebration of a 50th anniversary for a marriage or an organization
Relating to the 50th anniversary of an event
About the 50th anniversary of an event
Surface Forms
Morphology
golden + wedding + anniversary
The parts 'golden' (valuable/special), 'wedding' and 'anniversary' make it clear to a B1 learner that this refers to a particularly important wedding anniversary, so the general idea is predictable from the constituents. However, the conventionalised detail that 'golden' specifically denotes the 50th anniversary is culturally lexicalized rather than strictly compositional, so learners who only know the words may not infer the exact number without prior exposure (though many languages use a similar convention, which can help).
Etymology
Golden wedding anniversary comes from an old custom of giving special gifts for different years of marriage. After fifty years people gave gold or gold-coloured gifts, so golden shows something rare and very precious and the phrase means a '50th anniversary' of a wedding.