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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A woman who is about to be married or has recently been married.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A woman newly married, or about to be married.
  2. n. A name of the American wood or summer duck, Aix sponsa.
  3. To make a bride of; marry.
  4. To act like a bride; assume the air of a bride.
  5. n. A bridle.
  6. n. In needlework, lacemaking, etc., a loop, link, or tie.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A woman who is going to marry or who has just been married.
  2. v. obsolete To make a bride of.
  3. n. An individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A woman newly married, or about to be married.
  2. n. Fig.: An object ardently loved.
  3. v. obsolete To make a bride of.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a woman who has recently been married
  2. n. Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523)
  3. n. a woman participant in her own marriage ceremony

Etymologies

  1. From French bride ("bridle"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English brȳd. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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