English

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

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