bridal
English Edit
Etymology Edit
From Middle English bridale, from Old English brȳdealo (“wedding ale; wedding feast”); synchronically analyzable as bride + ale. The attributive usage was strengthened by association with bride + -al.
Pronunciation Edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbraɪ.dl̩/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) enPR: brīd-(ə)l, IPA(key): /ˈbɹaɪd(ə)l/
- Homophone: bridle
- Rhymes: -aɪd(ə)l
Noun Edit
bridal (plural bridals)
- (archaic) A wedding feast or festival; a wedding.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- […] the crowne, which Ariadne wore / Upon her yvory forehead, that same day / That Theseus her unto his bridal bore […]
- 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
- Thus, in the dead time of the night before her bridal, Edith Granger wrestled with her unquiet spirit, tearless, friendless, silent, proud, and uncomplaining.
Translations Edit
wedding
Adjective Edit
bridal (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial.
- bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber
Derived terms Edit
Translations Edit
nuptial
Anagrams Edit
Middle English Edit
Noun Edit
bridal
- Alternative form of bridale