Definitions
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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Well, give me the first salute of your fair bride; -- _and for your bride_
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Moody Stuart observes as to this Canticle (So 3: 6-5: 1), the center of the Book, these characteristics: (1) The bridegroom takes the chief part, whereas elsewhere the bride is the chief speaker.
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He compares our Saviour to the bridegroom: He that hath the bride is the bridegroom.
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On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found in a meadow on the outskirts of town.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jennifer Aniston may costar as his stand-in bride in a romantic comedy titled "Pretend Wife."
Jennifer Aniston To Be Adam Sandler’s ‘Pretend Wife’ » MTV Movies Blog
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My bride is the Belgian and has no family left there.
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If they're going to mention his previous marriage, why not tell us whether or not the bride is still a virgin.
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So the wedding pics are up on my photo blog and the bride is very happy with the photos.
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Their two rabbis cabled back from Palestine, “The bride is beautiful but she is married to another man.”
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There Holcomb discovers that his new bride is far from urbane.
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