diamond wedding
- noun
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bodas de diamante
- It's his diamond wedding.
Examples
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Is this the way to treat an old friend on the day of his diamond wedding?
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She told her friends that her parents are having their diamond wedding this weekend.
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Diamond wedding.
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Campbell's diamond wedding.
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They celebrated their diamond wedding with a big party for the whole family.
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After sixty years of marriage, they received many congratulations on their diamond wedding anniversary.
Synonyms
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The day each year when a married couple celebrates the date they married
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The 60th anniversary of an important event, usually celebrated with public events
A celebration to mark a couple's 60 years of marriage
Surface Forms
Morphology
A learner who knows 'diamond' (precious, emblematic of longevity) and 'wedding' (anniversary/union) can infer this refers to a special or milestone wedding anniversary, so part of the meaning is compositional. However, the specific convention that it denotes the sixtieth anniversary is a cultural, lexicalized convention not predictable from the words alone, so the phrase is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Diamond wedding compares a long marriage to a diamond, because diamonds are rare, very hard, and last for many years. So the phrase means 'the sixtieth wedding anniversary' and honours a couple who have been married for sixty years.