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noun
A song or poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom about to be married.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: literary
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Synonyms: epithalamium
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a song in celebration of a marriage
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: prothalamium
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: epithalamium, song, vocal
History
After Prothalamion, title of a 16th-century poem by Edmund Spenser, from Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “for”) + thalamion, as in epithalamion.
