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EPITHALAMIUM
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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)