"wedding song" meaning in All languages combined

See wedding song on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: wedding songs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} wedding song (plural wedding songs)
  1. Originally, a song composed for and/or sung at a wedding, an epithalamium; now a song, typically a popular love song, chosen by the bride and groom to be played at their wedding.
    Sense id: en-wedding_song-en-noun-WpRI-3S~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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