EPITHALAMIUM

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: epithalamia   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ode honoring a bride and bridegroom

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("epithalamium" is a kind of...):

ode (a lyric poem with complex stanza forms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "epithalamium"):

prothalamion; prothalamium (a song in celebration of a marriage)

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