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PRONUNCIATION OF WEDDING BREAKFAST

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WEDDING BREAKFAST

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Wedding breakfast is a noun.
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WHAT DOES WEDDING BREAKFAST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Wedding breakfast

A wedding breakfast is a dinner given to the bride, bridegroom, and guests at the wedding reception that follows a wedding in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Scandinavia and some English-speaking countries. The Compact Oxford Dictionary lists the phrase as only “British”, and the Merriam-Webster online dictionary does not list it at all. Wedding breakfast custom is occasionally spotted in touristic countries - especially ones that are destination for tourists from English speaking countries. Countries like Poland have prepared offers to cater especially for wedding tourists. Nowadays the wedding breakfast is not normally a morning meal, so its name can be confusing. The name is claimed to have arisen from the fact that in pre-Reformation times the wedding service was usually a Eucharistic Mass and that the bride and bridegroom would therefore have been fasting before the wedding in order to be eligible to receive the sacrament of Holy Communion. After the wedding ceremony was complete, the priest would bless and distribute some wine, cakes, and sweetmeats, which were then handed round to the company, including the bride and groom.

Definition of wedding breakfast in the English dictionary

The definition of wedding breakfast in the dictionary is the meal usually served after a wedding ceremony or just before the bride and bridegroom leave for their honeymoon.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WEDDING BREAKFAST

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wedded
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Weddell Sea
wedding
wedding anniversary
wedding band
wedding banquet
wedding cake
wedding day
wedding dress
wedding feast
wedding guest
wedding present
wedding reception
wedding ring
wedding vows
Wedekind
wedeln

WORDS THAT END LIKE WEDDING BREAKFAST

acid-fast
bed and breakfast
Belfast
breakfast
Buckfast
continental breakfast
deskfast
English breakfast
fast
full English breakfast
hard and fast
holdfast
light-fast
lockfast
power breakfast
prebreakfast
stand fast
steadfast
superfast
ultrafast

Synonyms and antonyms of wedding breakfast in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «wedding breakfast» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WEDDING BREAKFAST

Find out the translation of wedding breakfast to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wedding breakfast from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wedding breakfast» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

喜宴
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desayuno de la boda
570 millions of speakers

English

wedding breakfast
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शादी नाश्ता
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الإفطار الزفاف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

свадебный завтрак
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pequeno-almoço de casamento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিবাহের ব্রেকফাস্ট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

le petit déjeuner de mariage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sarapan perkahwinan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hochzeitsfrühstück
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

結婚式の朝食
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

결혼식 의 아침 식사
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wedding breakfast
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ăn sáng đám cưới
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

திருமண காலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लग्न नाश्ता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Düğün kahvaltısı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pranzo di nozze
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

śniadanie ślub
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Весільний сніданок
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mic dejun de nuntă
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

το πρωινό του γάμου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

troue ontbyt
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bröllop frukost
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bryllup frokost
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wedding breakfast

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WEDDING BREAKFAST»

The term «wedding breakfast» is regularly used and occupies the 69.352 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WEDDING BREAKFAST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wedding breakfast

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WEDDING BREAKFAST»

Discover the use of wedding breakfast in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wedding breakfast and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Marriage Customs of the World: From Henna to Honeymoons
As Jeaf- freson noted, the term “wedding breakfast” came to be used by the fashionable classes in Britain during the nineteenth century and re- ferred to anything from a simple buffet to a complete meal.As with many aspects of the traditional ...
George Monger, 2004
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Breakfast: A History
Wedding Breakfast An ancient Greek superstition told that ifa crow appeared at a wedding breakfast, a divorce would be unavoidable, unless all present cried out with one accord, “Maiden, scare away that crow!7793 Inversely, unless a bride ...
Heather Arndt Anderson, 2013
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Marriage Customs of the World: An Encyclopedia of Dating ...
As Jeaffreson noted, the term “wedding breakfast” came to be used by the fashionable classes in Britain during the nineteenth century and referred to anything from a simple buffet to a complete meal. As with many aspects of the traditional ...
George Monger, 2013
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The Wedding
Wedding. Breakfast. I. n Taconos, the Mexican tradition was for the maid of honor to host the wedding breakfast—or buy the pan dulce and chocolate. Blanca hinted to Lucy that Father Ranger might allow use of the church hall for the breakfast.
Mary Helen Ponce
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Words: A User's Guide
A derived word is brunch, a blend of breakfast and lunch which is a meal for late risers at about 11 a.m. power breakfast noun, means an early meeting of influential people to discuss business while eating breakfast. wedding breakfast noun, ...
Graham Pointon, Stewart Clark, 2014
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Ma Pettengill
Aunt Mollie wound the clock and set the mousetrap, and hustled us all off to bed so we could be up bright and early for the wedding breakfast. You'd think she'd been handling these affairs in metropolitan society for years. The women slept on  ...
Harry Leon Wilson, 2012
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Jane Austen and Marriage
as Caroline Austen's description of Anna and Ben's wedding breakfast illustrates: The breakfast was such as best breakfasts then were: some variety of bread, hot rolls, buttered toast, tongue or ham and eggs. The addition of chocolate at one ...
Hazel Jones, 2009
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Fairytale Wedding
Lord Carlisle, please, you know Louisa envisions herself a fairy princess for the affair." "She could be a fairy princess on horseback," he suggested mulishly. "We were discussing the wedding breakfast, not the ceremony," Whitfield 36 Ianice ...
Janice Bennett, 2013
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Second Chances
"I've always wanted a wedding breakfast at the Palace," Charles confided to Celeste, in his laughing, bantering way. Celeste would have been happy with a wedding breakfast almost anywhere at all, with Charles. However, it was finally ...
Alice Adams, 1999
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*Warning* Somebody Guard the Wedding Cake!
Why not, I thought to myself and started making the wedding breakfast at around five-thirty am. I knew that I would need to make things that they could choose from , ensuring that there would be something on the stove that everyone would like.
Melanie Flood, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WEDDING BREAKFAST»

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Inside Sweden's Beautiful Royal Wedding
They returned to palace for the wedding breakfast, posing beforehand ... Just when you think this is about as royal as a royal wedding gets, out comes the cake. «Elle UK Magazine, Jun 15»
2
Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan's wedding menu sounds like the …
It turns out their wedding breakfast consisted of pie and mash with liquor, and beer-battered fish and chips with mushy peas, to represent their home towns of ... «Cosmopolitan UK, May 15»
3
Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan married: 29 things that happened …
Outside Mark Wright & Michelle Keegans wedding with my new wedding hat. ... It's expected guests were served a wedding breakfast with a theme of a ... «Metro, May 15»
4
'Most amazing day of our lives' – Geri Halliwell gushes on Twitter …
GERI Halliwell has labelled her wedding to new husband Christian Horner as ... The venue has popped up white marquees where the wedding breakfast and ... «OK! Magazine, May 15»
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Bride couldn't tuck into her wedding breakfast 5 years ago - and …
Bride Nicola Nichols couldn't eat anything at her wedding breakfast five years ago – and hasn't eaten a single thing since. But it wasn't wedding jitters stopping ... «mirror.co.uk, Mar 15»
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Prince William and Kate's wedding breakfast menu revealed for first …
Prince William and Kate's stunning wedding breakfast menu is seen for the first time as it goes up for auction. The ornate menu for the evening dinner served to ... «Mirror.co.uk, Feb 15»
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Groom ate wedding breakfast through straw after thug broke his jaw …
A groom spent his wedding day struggling to speak and eating through a straw after he was brutally attacked on his stag do, a court heard. Philip Bagnall, 33 ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jan 15»
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Beaming George Clooney tucks into pre-wedding breakfast
US actor George Clooney was spotted having breakfast at the outdoor restaurant of the Cipriani Hotel in Venice on Saturday ahead of his celebrity-studded ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 14»
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Caernarfon butcher supplies Katherine Jenkins with 'world's best lamb'
They will also be dining on Welsh produce during the wedding breakfast, including a selection of Welsh cheeses, bara brith, Welsh black beef and Welsh lamb. «Daily Post North Wales, Sep 14»
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Prince Harry parties in Miami on best friend's bachelor party ahead …
Prince Harry has started his US trip for rowdy royal pal Guy Pelly's wedding as .... to be placed next to Harry on the top table at the wedding breakfast thrown in ... «Daily Mail, May 14»

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