bride

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• n. A woman newly married, or about to be married.
• n. Fig.: An object ardently loved.
• transitive v. To make a bride of.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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