wedding march
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2.8
- noun
- /ˈwɛdɪŋ mɑrtʃ/
:
marcha nupcial
- "J.D., the DJ, was stuck in bridge traffic, so the ceremony commenced without the prerecorded wedding march."
- playing the wedding march
- started playing the wedding march
- wedding march begins
Examples
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The band strikes up the Wedding March as Billie and her father walk down the aisle.
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The Wedding March begins.
Fiction book (1999) -
And then the wedding march began.
Fiction book (1994) -
And she would have had a proper wedding march.
Fiction book (1994) -
Aunt Diana started playing the wedding march.
Fiction book (1991) -
The band strikes up the "Wedding March" as Billie and her father walk down the aisle.
Fiction book (1990) -
As a rumble of voices ascended the stairs, someone turned on a tape recorder that blared forth the wedding march.
Fiction book (1993) -
Toney got everybody at the jug in on it, moving chairs aside to make an aisle for the wedding march and turning a table into an altar with a red and white tablecloth for the altar cloth.
Fiction book (1990) -
The door opened to the sound of electronic chimes playing Mendelssohn's Wedding March.
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I suppose you shall carry lovely flowers and have Mr. Mendelssohn's Wedding March.
Synonyms
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3.2
A piece of music with a strong, steady beat for bands
1
7.6
A piece of music played during a formal walk in a ceremony
1
3.7
Music with a strong regular beat played by bands for parades
Music with a steady marching beat played during a formal procession
How Celebratory
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a musical piece played during a wedding procession' is directly derivable from combining 'wedding' (the marriage event) with 'march' (a rhythmic piece of music). This straightforward Noun+Noun composition is cross-linguistically common (e.g., Spanish 'marcha nupcial', French 'marche nuptiale'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the term.
Etymology
The phrase wedding march comes from the practice of playing a steady, march-like tune at a wedding while people walked in a line. Because this music helped set the steps, it came to mean the music played when the bride 'walks down the aisle' or when the new couple leaves.