adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to wedding and marriage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
nuptial
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈnʌp.ʃəl/
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/ˈnʌp.t͡ʃ(ʊ)əl/ influenced by words ending in -tual, sometimes proscribed
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈnɐpʃəl/
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Northern-England: /ˈnʊpʃəl/
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CMU ARPABET: N AH1 P CH AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Capable, or characteristic, of breeding.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
of or relating to a wedding
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- bridal procession
- nuptial day
- spousal rites
- wedding cake
- marriage vows
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bridal, spousal
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin nūptiālis (“pertaining to marriage”), from nūptiae (“wedding”), from nūbō (“to marry, to take as husband”).
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: հարսանեկան (harsanekan) — pertaining to wedding and marriage
- Armenian: հարսանյաց (harsanyacʻ) — pertaining to wedding and marriage
- Bulgarian: сватбен (svatben) — pertaining to wedding and marriage
- Catalan: nupcial — pertaining to wedding and marriage
- Chinese Mandarin: 婚禮的 /婚礼的 (hūnlǐde) — pertaining to wedding and marriage
- Finnish: avioliitto- — pertaining to wedding and marriage
- French: nuptial — pertaining to wedding and marriage
- Georgian: საქორწილო (sakorc̣ilo) — pertaining to wedding and marriage
- German: hochzeitlich — pertaining to wedding and marriage
- Italian: nuziale — pertaining to wedding and marriage
- Malay: perkahwinan — pertaining to wedding and marriage
- Polish: ślubny — pertaining to wedding and marriage
- Polish: weselny — pertaining to wedding and marriage
- Polish: małżeński — pertaining to wedding and marriage
- Portuguese: nupcial — pertaining to wedding and marriage
- Romanian: de nuntă — pertaining to wedding and marriage
- Romanian: nupțial — pertaining to wedding and marriage
- Russian: бра́чный (bráčnyj) — pertaining to wedding and marriage
- Spanish: nupcial — pertaining to wedding and marriage
- Polish: rozrodowy — capable, or characteristic, of breeding
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