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newlyweds

nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,038 of 15,258leans spoken

Newlyweds are a couple who married only recently. The happy newlyweds, a card for the newlyweds, newlyweds' first home.

It is almost always plural, since it names the pair rather than either one. There is no fixed period after which the word stops applying, but it is generally the first year. It is written as one word.

Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0

Definitions of newlyweds

  1. 1nounnewlywedsA couple who married only recently.B2

    “The newlyweds left for their honeymoon the morning after the wedding.”

newlyweds is a couple.

Where it comes from

newlywed comes from newly + wed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Family & People

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newlyweds in the wild

  • A honeymoon is a vacation taken by newlyweds after their wedding to celebrate their marriage.

    Honeymoon

  • A wedding breakfast is a feast given to the newlyweds and guests after the wedding, making it equivalent to a wedding reception that serves a meal.

    Wedding breakfast

  • In 1.2, Brabantio is led to the Sagittary, where the newlyweds are found and there accuses Othello of using magic to bewitch his daughter.

    Brabantio

  • The money dance, dollar dance, and apron dance are wedding traditions found in multiple cultures where guests give money to the newlyweds during the reception celebration.

    Money dance

  • The ceremony begins with the older couple seated on cushions behind a table in front of a painted screen, with the newlyweds opposite them.

    Pyebaek

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.