Nuptial+song
21epithalamium — epithalamic /ep euh theuh lam ik/, adj. /ep euh theuh lay mee euhm/, n., pl. epithalamiums, epithalamia / mee euh/. epithalamion. * * * or epithalamion Nuptial song or poem in honour or praise of a bride and bridegroom. In ancient Greece such… …
22epithalamium — /ɛpiθəˈleɪmiəm/ (say epeethuh laymeeuhm), /ɛpə / (say epuh ) noun (plural epithalamiums or epithalamia /ɛpiθəˈleɪmiə/ (say epeethuh laymeeuh), /ɛpə / (say epuh )) a nuptial song or poem; a poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom. {Latin, from… …
23hymeneal — a. pertaining to Hymen, god of marriage; nuptial; n. nuptial song …
24marriage — n 1. matrimony, holy matrimony, wedlock, holy wedlock; bond of matrimony, conjugal bond or tie or knot, wedding knot; match. 2. wedding, nuptials, espousals, spousals, espouse ment, bridal, hymeneal rites; wedding song, nuptial song, hymeneal,… …
25poem — n verse composition, lyric, sonnet, villanelle, ode, Class. Prosody. epode, palinode, anacreontic, dithyramb, elegy; rhapsody, epic; rondelet, Prosody. rondeau, Prosody. rondel; pastoral, idyll, eclogue, bucolic, georgic; nuptial song,… …
26Croak — Croak, v. t. To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster. [1913 Webster] The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan. Shak. [1913 Webster] Two ravens now began to croak… …
27Karl Goldmark — Karl Goldmark, also known originally as Károly Goldmark and later sometimes as Carl Goldmark, (Keszthely, Hungary, May 18, 1830 ndash; January 2, 1915 Vienna) was a Hungarian composer.Life and careerHe came from a large Jewish family, one of 20… …
28EPITHALAMIUM — a nuptial song, sung before the bridal chamber in honour of the newly wedded couple, particularly among the Greeks and Romans, of whom Theocritus and Catullus have left notable examples; but the epithalamium of Edmund Spenser is probably the… …
29HYMEN — in the Greek mythology the God of Marriage, son of Apollo, and one of the Muses, represented as a boy with wings; originally a nuptial song sung at the departure of the bride from her parental home …
30epithalamium — n. Nuptial song, marriage poem …
