silver wedding
nounEtymology A calque of German Silberhochzeit or silberne Hochzeit, first attested in 1845.
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The silver anniversary of a wedding, the 25th anniversary of a marriage.
- The Silver Wedding! on some pensive ear From towers remote as sound the silvery bells, To-day from one far unforgotten year A silvery faint memorial music swells.1845, Arthur Hugh Clough, Ambarvalia: Poems, London: Chapman and Hall, published 1849, page 28:
- ‘Perhaps you have no golden or silver wedding in England?’ ‘I confess I never heard of any thing of the kind,’ said Hamilton...1850, Jemima von Tautphoeus, Initials, volume I, page 121:
- Coordinate terms
- ruby wedding (40th), golden wedding (50th), diamond wedding (60th, 75th)