we'dとは

意味・読み方・使い方

短縮形

we'd

1. 短縮形 of we had.
2. 短縮形 of we would.

アナグラム

• DEW, Dew, dew

アナグラム

• DEW, Dew, dew

発音

• enPR: wĕdʹ, IPA^(key): /ˈwɛd/
• 韻: -ɛd

動詞

wed (三人称単数 現在形 weds, 現在分詞 wedding, 過去形および過去分詞形 wed または wedded)

1. (transitive) To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.

   The priest wed the couple.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 8”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     And Adam, wedded to another Eve, / Shall live with her.

2. (transitive) To take as one's spouse.

   She wed her first love.

   • 2017 September 27, David Browne, "Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91," Rolling Stone

     In 1989, he wed Playmate Kimberley Conrad, a marriage that ended in 2010. In 2013, he married his younger girlfriend, Crystal Harris, with whom he was still wed at the time of his death.

3. (intransitive) To take a spouse.
4. (reciprocal) To take each other as a spouse.

   They will wed in the summer.

   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[1]:

     On the rock above was an inscription in three words. Ayesha translated it. It was `Wedded in Death.' What was the life-story of these two, who, of a truth, were beautiful in their lives, and in their death were not divided?

5. (figuratively, transitive) To join or commit to, more or less permanently, as if in marriage.

   I'm not wedded to this proposal; suggest an alternative.

   • c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iii]:

     Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.

   • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious

     Men are wedded to their lusts.

   • 1962 April, “Death from Natural Causes?”, in Modern Railways, page 218:

     It will be a tragedy if further enterprises of this kind—for example, the one proposed between South Wales, Bristol and the South Coast via Salisbury—are now deferred until they, too, are realised too late to make an impact on a public that is too firmly wedded to the roads to be wooed back to the trains.

   • 2008, Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns, page 72:

     […] the PPS paper proposed a political doctrine that wedded modernization theory to U.S. support for national security states […]

6. (figuratively, intransitive) To take to oneself and support; to espouse.
   • 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, OCLC 937919305:

     They positively and concernedly wedded his cause.

7. (Northern England, Scotland) To wager, stake, bet, place a bet, make a wager.

   I'd wed my head on that.

同意語

• marry

参照

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

アナグラム

• DEW, Dew, dew