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bride
1[ brahyd ]
noun
- a newly married woman or a woman about to be married.
bride
2[ brahyd; French breed ]
Bride
3[ brahyd ]
noun
- Saint. Brigid, Saint.
Bride
1/ braɪd /
bride
2/ braɪd /
noun
- lacemaking needlework a thread or loop that joins parts of a pattern Also calledbar
bride
3/ braɪd /
noun
- a woman who has just been or is about to be married
Other Words From
- brideless adjective
- bridelike adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of bride1
Word History and Origins
Origin of bride1
Origin of bride2
Idioms and Phrases
see give away (the bride) .Example Sentences
If a reasonable amount of time goes by and you have not received thanks — and you have other reasons to contact the mother, besides checking up on the bride — then yes, you may casually mention your fears.
One of the Walton sons was even married in Elkton to his 17-year old bride on the TV show The Waltons.
On the morning after their wedding night, he rolls over to snuggle with his new bride as she sleeps.
For such men, it is convenient to purchase a bride across state for a cheaper price.
These gender imbalances have increased cross-cultural and cross-regional marriages, which has in turn exacerbated trafficking of brides in India.
When she arrived, she saw that Little Snow White was the bride.
He became paranoid that his bride would be kidnapped, and told her to never go to the same place twice.
Women threw rice on peshmerga fighters, a tradition practiced at Syrian weddings when neighbors welcome the bride and groom.
Shrien Dewani looked like a broken man after the November 2010 carjacking that left his new bride dead.
He had some help, too—the entire cast and crew of The Princess Bride contributed cherished memories to the tome.
The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.
The hour was beyond the time in which he ought to have been in the imperial boudoir, to await the hand of his intended bride.
Bride and bridegroom, accompanied by the weeping crowd, proceeded to the castle gate.
It is the custom among these people for the lover to give his bride as fine a present as her parents think suitable.
Next night at dinner I proposed Sir Alister's health, and we all drank to him and his "bride-to-be."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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