What's the difference between cortege and wedding?

Cortege


Definition:

  • (n.) A train of attendants; a procession.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I was five when taken on a dark winter morning to see George VI’s funeral cortege pass by.
  • (2) People flocked to a crematorium where a private cremation will be held for a final glimpse of the cortege.
  • (3) Belaïd's death was described in his cortege as a new type of political murder.
  • (4) It was the day of the funeral of Jimmy Reid – the firebrand union leader who had kept the docks open by occupying them in the 1970s – and Ed joined the dockworkers who lined the streets as the cortege passed.
  • (5) I have few recollections of Thatcher after the slowly chauffeured, weepy Downing Street cortege.
  • (6) At noon, the cortege is due to leave the University of Leicester, where the archaeologists and academics have studied and guarded the monarch’s mortal remains since they were excavated from a council car park in August 2012.
  • (7) A factory was turned into a chapel today for the funeral of the Segway scooter owner Jimi Heselden, whose hundreds of workers lined the goods delivery bay and staff car park as his cortege arrived draped in flowers.
  • (8) The protest was led by a group dressed in black suits and masks and carrying umbrellas and briefcases to represent financial speculators, acting as the head of a funeral cortege mourning the death of Europe.
  • (9) This past Thursday, when Senator Kennedy's funeral cortege wound the 90 miles from the family compound on Cape Cod up to Boston, it made its way through a landscape littered with memorials to his siblings, his parents and his grandparents: Lt Joseph P Kennedy Jr Memorial School; the Kennedy Federal Building; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway (which is built over the old John F Fitzgerald expressway); the Robert Kennedy School; the JFK Presidential Library.
  • (10) As the funeral cortege made its way up Seville Place, flanked by five garda motorbike outriders, a train on the railway bridge over the street suddenly halted while thousands all around clapped and cheered.
  • (11) When recently his remains were brought home from New York for reburial, a military honour guard met the cortege and he was given a hero’s funeral.
  • (12) Even as her funeral procession wound through London streets some faced the cortege and bowed their heads in respect; others turned their backs.
  • (13) According to the Times of India newspaper, the funeral cortege took three hours to cover the five miles to the river from their ancestral home because of the crowds.
  • (14) Maclean is to be found in Eastwood cemetery in Glasgow's southern suburbs, where he was taken in 1923 with a crowd of thousands following the cortege.
  • (15) There was gentle clapping as the cortege, with police motorcycle escort, drove slowly through cordoned-off streets.
  • (16) When we reflect on Bieber's Louis Vuitton embossed, Lamborghini cortege it is easy to equate addiction with indulgence and immorality.
  • (17) Recently, I was travelling to visit my sick mother in hospital and they closed the road for an hour because Putin's cortege was taking him somewhere to drink tea with someone.
  • (18) Undeterred by heavy rain, about 100,000 people lined a 15km (nine-mile) route through the city-state to catch a glimpse of the funeral cortege.
  • (19) After he fled the capital, Yanukovych said, "bandits" had opened fire on his cortege, injuring one of his security officers.
  • (20) Three shootings over the weekend included the killing of a mourner at the wake for an earlier gun crime victim, whose cortege had been given a police escort amid fears of trouble.

Wedding


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wed
  • (n.) Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.
  • (2) In the Proposition 8 legal action, the supreme court could decide: • There is a constitutional right, under the equal protection clauses, for gay couples to wed, in which case the laws in 30 states prohibiting same-sex marriages are overturned.
  • (3) The aim of this paper is to elucidate the process of identity formation with particular emphasis on how the 'work ego' of each analyst is formed through various experiences which help the practitioner wed theoretical knowledge with clinical experience.
  • (4) Indeed, the best that many wedding service liturgies can do to insist that Jesus himself supported the institution of marriage is to say that he once turned up at one.
  • (5) She said: “We felt it would be quite hypocritical [to have a church wedding] when it’s not really what we believe in.
  • (6) A brief courtship was followed by a surprise wedding.
  • (7) One couple made the point graphically: she wore a red-stained wedding dress and her partner wore a sign that read, “I am the rapist”.
  • (8) On the programme, the bakes begin to become divorced from their function as food; they become symbols, like the cardboard cakes that were sometimes used at British weddings during the war when shortages ruled out the real thing.
  • (9) I don’t think I’ve ever spent that much on anything apart from my wedding dress,” Morgan said.
  • (10) One commentator has labelled the Pitt and Jolie wedding “normcore” by comparison.
  • (11) More than 120 couples joined the mass on Sunday morning to renew their wedding vows and celebrate more than 1,700 years of marriage between them.
  • (12) They are doing it not because they believe the 66-year-old can win in 2020, but for the same reason people retweet images of same-sex wedding ceremonies.
  • (13) By design these plants are adjacent to the AEC's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and such a location would seem ideal for an experiment on the wedding of nuclear and fossil sources of energy.
  • (14) It’s the frontrunner, has the critics on its side and is certainly the Film to Tick Without Watching, but the academy have a track record of shotgun weddings with watchable wild cards in this category – see the wins for The Lives of Others and The Secret in Their Eyes .
  • (15) The best thing that happened to me was when David Gedge [lead singer of the Wedding Present] followed me on Twitter".
  • (16) magazine-contracted, half-million pound wedding, Posh and Becks sat on a pair of golden thrones.
  • (17) When Emma Horan and Sam Whitney get married next summer they will commit themselves to each other in a special place, surrounded by their family and closest friends, but, as things stand, the wedding ceremony will not be recognised in law because their belief system is not based on religion.
  • (18) He conducted his first mass wedding in Seoul in the early 1960s.
  • (19) She was often at Moon's side for the mass weddings.
  • (20) A newly wed Mohamed Amine Benmbarek passed away while his wife received 3 shots and is in critical condition at the hospital.” Francois-Xavier Prevost, 26, France La Voix du Nord reports Prevost was killed at the Bataclan.