wedding ring
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈwɛdɪŋ rɪŋ/
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- He slipped the wedding ring on her finger during the ceremony as a symbol of their love.
Couples who buy expensive wedding rings are more likely to divorce sooner.
- Couples who buy expensive wedding rings are more likely to divorce sooner.
- Did Neil gift you some Cristal piece for the wedding ring to sit on?
- And I decided not to get him a wedding band or wedding ring.
- And then her mom gave the real ring, which is her old wedding ring.
- My parents had to hollow out the heel of their shoes so my mother could take her wedding ring and her cross necklace.
- Now it could be indicated by some sort of, as he's calling it, badge, for example, a wedding ring, right?
- All right, so now let's move on to the second reason why a man will give you a baby but not a wedding ring.
- Well, a mutual friend of hers and the guy that she's dating sees an image of this man on Facebook and there's a wedding ring on his hand.
- So when he sent her to the Weaver, it was to test her powers, to test that she could get over her panic, and also to retrieve her wedding ring.
- Well, it's certainly more permanent than wedding rings in in in some sense.
- I mean with my with my wedding ring as well.
Examples
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Matti, who was on her right, slipped the wedding ring onto her hand with a single, characteristically purposeful movement.
Fiction book (1993) -
Her husband had given her a wedding ring to keep her virtuous.
Academic text (1996) -
Yeah, but I would like to see your wedding ring.
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Oh, it's a wedding ring.
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And then she notices his wedding ring for the first time.
Fiction book (1993) -
The wedding rings are in my wallet.
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We don't wear wedding rings while we work.
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And just before walking out, she slipped her wedding ring off her finger and dropped it into her tote.
Fiction book (1995) -
The glint of his wedding ring caught a sliver of light.
Fiction book (1990) -
Every watch, button, photograph, or wedding ring taken from a prisoner represented a sliver of his character.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
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1.0
A small round band of metal worn on a finger or for fastening and hanging things
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3.1
A thin metal ring worn on the finger as jewelry
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1.7
A ring worn to show someone is married
How Ornate
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and predictably built from 'wedding' (the marriage ceremony) + 'ring' (a circular band worn on a finger); a B1 learner who knows both words will infer a ring associated with a wedding and symbolizing marriage. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows familiar noun + noun compound logic, so the phrase is immediately comprehensible from its parts.
Etymology
Wedding ring comes from the simple image of a ring: a small circle with no end. People put it on the finger during a ceremony as a sign and promise of 'marriage', so the unbroken circle came to stand for the couple's life together.