silver wedding

English

Etymology

1845, calque of German Silberhochzeit, silberne Hochzeit.

Noun

silver wedding (plural silver weddings)

1. A celebration to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of a marriage.
   • 1845, Arthur Hugh Clough, Ambarvalia: Poems, London: Chapman and Hall [1849], p 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.

Synonyms

• silver-feast, silver anniversary

Derived terms

• silver (adj., sense of 25th anniversary, applied generally)

Related terms

• diamond wedding
• golden wedding

Translations

anniversary celebration

• Catalan: noces d'argent f
• Danish: sølvbryllup (da) n
• Estonian: hõbepulm
• Finnish: hopeahäät (fi) pl
• French: noces d’argent (fr) f pl
• German: Silberhochzeit (de) f, silberne Hochzeit (de) f
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• Hungarian: ezüstlakodalom (hu)
• Japanese: 銀婚式 (ja) (ginkonshiki)
• Portuguese: bodas de prata (pt) f pl
• Russian: сере́бряная сва́дьба f (serébrjanaja svádʹba)
• Volapük: largentöfamated (vo)