silver wedding
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
A calque of German Silberhochzeit or silberne Hochzeit, first attested 1845.
Noun[edit]
silver wedding (plural silver weddings)
- The silver anniversary of a wedding, the 25th anniversary of a marriage.
- 1845, Arthur Hugh Clough, Ambarvalia: Poems, London: Chapman and Hall, published 1849, page 28:
- The Silver Wedding! on some pensive ear
From towers remote as sound the silvery bells,
To-day from one far unforgotten year
A silvery faint memorial music swells.
- 1850, Jemima von Tautphoeus, Initials, volume I, page 121:
- ‘Perhaps you have no golden or silver wedding in England?’
‘I confess I never heard of any thing of the kind,’ said Hamilton...
Coordinate terms[edit]
- ruby wedding (40th)
- golden wedding (50th)
- diamond wedding (60th/75th)
Translations[edit]
25th anniversary of a marriage — see silver anniversary
References[edit]
- “silver, n. and adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.
