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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wedded
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
domestic/wedded/marital bliss
▪ six months of wedded bliss
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bliss
▪ It was a celebration not just of 25 years' wedded bliss, but also the modern Labour Party.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Has it ever occurred to you that I was wedded and bedded and well pregnant by the time I was your age?
▪ It was a celebration not just of 25 years' wedded bliss, but also the modern Labour Party.
▪ The guests were crowding slowly past the wedded couple, kissing them, shaking their hands.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wedded

Wedded \Wed"ded\, a.

  1. Joined in wedlock; married.

    Let w?alth, let honor, wait the wedded dame.
    --Pope.

  2. Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage. ``Wedded love.''
    --Milton.

Wedded

Wed \Wed\, v. t. [imp. Wedded; p. p. Wedded or Wed; p. pr. & vb. n. Wedding.] [OE. wedden, AS. weddian to covenant, promise, to wed, marry; akin to OFries. weddia to promise, D. wedden to wager, to bet, G. wetten, Icel. ve[eth]ja, Dan. vedde, Sw. v["a]dja to appeal, Goth. gawadj[=o]n to betroth. See Wed, n.]

  1. To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse.

    With this ring I thee wed.
    --Bk. of Com. Prayer.

    I saw thee first, and wedded thee.
    --Milton.

  2. To join in marriage; to give in wedlock.

    And Adam, wedded to another Eve, Shall live with her.
    --Milton.

  3. Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly.

    Thou art wedded to calamity.
    --Shak.

    Men are wedded to their lusts.
    --Tillotson.

    [Flowers] are wedded thus, like beauty to old age.
    --Cowper.

  4. To take to one's self and support; to espouse. [Obs.]

    They positively and concernedly wedded his cause.
    --Clarendon.

Wiktionary
wedded
  1. (context of a couple English) joined in marriage. v

  2. (en-pastwed)

WordNet
wedded

See wed

wed
  1. adj. having been taken in marriage [syn: wedded]

  2. [also: wedding, wedded]

wedded

adj. having been taken in marriage [syn: wed]

wed
  1. v. take in marriage [syn: marry, get married, conjoin, hook up with, get hitched with, espouse]

  2. perform a marriage ceremony; "The minister married us on Saturday"; "We were wed the following week"; "The couple got spliced on Hawaii" [syn: marry, tie, splice]

  3. [also: wedding, wedded]

Usage examples of "wedded".

Of a sudden, he ached to consummate this marriage with his wedded wife.

Notwithstanding the legend, therefore, Draupadi might be regarded as wedded to Yudhishthir, though won by the skill of Arjun, and this assumption would be in keeping with Hindu customs and laws, ancient and modern.

Ye birchen trees, whose bark I carved delighted With many runes, still wedded to the spot Your white stems stand, crown-capped with sunshine golden, All save myself unchanged since days now olden.

Gene selection beyond physical pick-and-choose, commercial AI, even personal comm units were either disallowed or else heavily regulated on Solcintra, and though many such devices would have given the service class an easier life, they seemed as wedded to the minimal tech as their now-departed overseers.

In marrying old Mr Flawse she had done more than marry a man in his dotage, she had wedded herself to a fortune in antique furniture and fine silver.

Thyphoeus and Mimas, Porphyrion and Rhoecus, the giant brood of old, steeped in ignorance and wedded to corruption, had scaled the heights of Olympus, assisted by that audacious flinger of deadly ponderous missiles, who stands ever ready with his terrific sling--Supplehouse, the Enceladus of the press.

Ten years later Marie became the wife of the broker Colonda, and Rose, a few years afterwards, married a nobleman, Pierre Marcello, and had one son and two daughters, one of whom was wedded to M.

Next day I stayed out till after midnight, and the cook told me that the wedded couple had made a good supper and had gone to bed.

Now therefore shall they and I together earn the merry days to come, the winter hunting and the spring sowing, the summer haysel, the ingathering of harvest, the happy rest of midwinter, and Yuletide with the memory of the Fathers, wedded to the hope of the days to be.

Two months only had she been wedded to Huor when he went with his brother to the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, and she never saw him again.

When Leonymus returned from Leuke he told how Achilles dwelt there with his ancient comrades, and how he was now wedded to Helen of Troy.

A very likable guy with a good grin, a man of warmth, of funny stories, a newly wedded man in love with his wife.

Amymone daughter of Danaus, wedded to Poseidon, bare Nauplius, who surpassed all men in naval skill.

Burg, partly of those women-thralls, partly of carles and queans come newly from the Wheat-wearers, partly of men of our Fellowship the more part of whom are wedded to queans of the Wheat-wearers, and partly of men, chapmen and craftsmen and others who have drifted into the town, having heard that there is no lack of wealth there, and many fair women unmated.

Adrian had first withdrawn me from my sylvatic wilderness to his own paradise of order and beauty, I had been wedded to literature.