Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Joined in marriage.
  • adjective Of or relating to marriage.
  • adjective Closely attached or devoted.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Married; united in marriage.
  • Of or pertaining to matrimony: as, wedded life; wedded bliss.
  • Intimately united or joined together; clasped together.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Joined in wedlock; married.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of a couple joined in marriage.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of wed.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having been taken in marriage

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Examples

  • The first two years we were kind of in wedded bliss.

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  • And I was like, I cannot tell them we are going to get married and live in wedded bliss eternally, because she is a commoner, and also, I am not absolutely sure how she feels?

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  • When Boo and I decided to forever tangle ourselves together in wedded bliss, we never gave much thought to what that meant.

    Good Bye Dear Hubs, Hello Hairy Legs… @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy 2006

  • Ninety years wedded is the unique record of Francisco Espor, aged one hundred and ten, and his wife, Rafael, aged one hundred and seven.

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  • Conservatives, however, remain wedded to Bush†™ s stay the course rhetoric, unwilling to make any promises of a near-term departure from Iraq.

    Think Progress » Progressive Unity on Iraq: Redeployment Must Begin Immediately 2006

  • Lots of people remain wedded to the “think very hard about a problem, and then write down the answer” [...]

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  • Though we still think a husband should exercise some control over the legal capacity of his junior partner in wedded life, if she is his junior partner no longer in civic life and is equally entitled with him to control the destinies of the whole country by her vote, shall she continue to have only an unequal control or no control at all over the destinies of the family patrimony?

    The Quebec Code as a Canadian Asset 1920

  • I'd forsake my ain wedded lord tae gae wi the gypsy laddies

    Gypsy Laddies 1898

  • Wid ye forsake yer ain wedded lord tae gae follow wi the gypsy laddies

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  • We do not like a periodical change in the first magistrate; and we like quite as little a periodical permanence in the political officers immediately under the chief magistrate; we are, in short, wedded to our own forms, and therefore opposed by judgment to forms differing from our own.

    North America 1862

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