EPITHALAMIUM (epithalamia)
Dictionary entry overview: What does epithalamium mean? • EPITHALAMIUM (noun)
The noun EPITHALAMIUM has 1 sense:
1. an ode honoring a bride and bridegroom
Familiarity information: EPITHALAMIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EPITHALAMIUM (noun)
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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