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war bride

noun

  1. a woman who marries a serviceman about to go overseas in wartime.
  2. a woman who marries a foreign serviceman and goes to live in his country.


war bride

noun

  1. a soldier's bride met as a result of troop movements in wartime, esp a foreign national
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of war bride1

First recorded in 1915–20
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Example Sentences

To research the play, Houston traveled back to Kansas, where she and her mother interviewed dozens of Japanese war brides.

Some soldiers married Asian women and brought them home as war brides, while others primarily viewed Asian women as sexual objects.

From Salon

He left for the United States that December, and she followed a few months later on a Red Cross ship ferrying hundreds of Italian war brides.

The following May, Nancy joined 2,000 “war brides” on the Queen Mary, headed to America.

Her ship, full of war brides, zig-zagged across the Atlantic to evade U-boats.

From BBC

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