wedding license
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- noun
- /ˈwɛdɪŋ ˈlaɪsəns/
- Formal
:
licencia de matrimonio
- And a neighbor named Quick, who was first on the scene, found the half-drawn pistol in Thorpe's hand; and a week after the brief account was printed in the Memphis papers, a woman appeared in Frenchman's Bend who claimed to be Thorpe's wife, and with a wedding license to prove it, trying to claim any money or property he might have left.
- sign the wedding license
You can get there wedding licence in the hotel, right?
- You can get there wedding licence in the hotel, right?
Examples
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Before they got married, they had to apply for a wedding license at the local courthouse.
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You can get there wedding licence in the hotel, right?
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I don't think that a Catholic priest will perform a wedding ceremony unless you bring him a wedding license.
Blog text (9) -
He required notification and a fee before non-Anglicans could ring their own church bell and charged fees for their wedding licenses.
Academic text (2010) -
To make their marriage official, the couple brought their wedding license to the ceremony.
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In many states, a wedding license must be obtained at least a day before the wedding date.
Synonyms
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2.8
An official paper from the government that allows two people to marry
How Official
- Formal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an official document granting legal permission for two people to marry' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'wedding' (marriage event) with 'license' (legal authorization); the noun+noun composition follows a standard semantic pattern. This concept and construction are common across languages and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Wedding license comes from the idea that a written license gave official 'permission' for a wedding, so the paper showed the couple could legally marry. That's why today a wedding license means the legal paper that lets two people marry.