wedding ring

noun

1. a ring, usually of gold, platinum, or silver, given by one partner to the other during a marriage ceremony.

wedding ring

noun

1. a band ring with parallel sides, typically of precious metal, worn to indicate married status

Word History and Origins

Origin of wedding ring¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

Hoping to give her blessing and her mother’s wedding ring to her son — “The Family Stone” remains a very clever double entendre — Sybil’s plans are quickly thwarted by this realization.

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The series of photos included the couple, in their wedding attire, lounging on a white sofa and a close-up shot of their left hands with the wedding rings that now adorn them.

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He flips a jar of sumac between his hands like a baseball while teasing a regular, a woman in zebra-print pants with a diamond wedding ring the size of a quail’s egg.

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A Canadian man dug through piles of rubbish at his local dump in a valiant, romantic - and ultimately successful - effort to find his wife's accidentally discarded wedding rings.

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Bedford Scuba Divers are often tasked with finding lost objects on river beds and this was their third wedding ring rescue.

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