bride
English
editPronunciation
edit- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɹaɪd/
Audio (California): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪd
Etymology 1
editFrom Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd (“bride”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bräid (“bride”), West Frisian breid (“bride”), German Low German Bruut (“bride”), Dutch bruid (“bride”), German Braut (“bride”), Danish brud (“bride”), Swedish brud (“bride”).
Noun
editbride (plural brides)
- A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
- Coordinate terms: bridegroom, groom
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 21:9:
- I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
- 1746, George Lyttelton, An Irregular Ode:
- Has by his own experience tried
How much the wife is dearer than the bride.
- 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
- Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.
- (obsolete, figurative) An object ardently loved.
Derived terms
edit- always a bridesmaid, never a bride
- blushing bride
- bridal
- bride-ale
- brideangroom
- bridebed
- bridecake
- bridechamber
- bride-gift
- bride gift
- bridegroom
- bridehood
- brideless
- bridelet
- bridelike
- bridely
- bridemaid
- bridenapping
- Bride of the Red Sea
- Bride of the Sea
- bride-price
- bride price
- bridesmaid
- bridesmaiden
- bridesman
- bridesmatron
- brideswear
- bride-to-be
- bride token
- bridewain
- bride wealth
- bride-wealth
- bridewealth
- bride wear
- bridewear
- bridewort
- bridey
- bridezilla
- bridie
- child bride
- child-bride
- cyberbride
- December bride
- mail-order bride
- mourning bride
- off like a bride's nightie
- picture bride
- runaway bride
- war bride
- would-be bride
Translations
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Verb
editbride (third-person singular simple present brides, present participle briding, simple past and past participle brided)
- (obsolete) to make a bride of
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from French bride (“bridle”).
Noun
editbride (plural brides)
- an individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework
Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle French bride, from Old French bride (“rein, bridle”), from Middle High German brīdel (“rein, bridle”), from Old High German brīdil (“rein, bridle”) (compare also Old High German brittil (“rein, strap”), French bretelle), from Proto-Germanic *brigdilaz (“bridle”). Compare Spanish brida, Italian briglia. More at bridle.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbride f (plural brides)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Portuguese: brida
Verb
editbride
- inflection of brider:
Further reading
edit- “bride”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editNoun
editbride f
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Old English brȳd, from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride, daughter-in-law”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbride (plural brides or bruden)
- a bride; a woman recently married or to be married
- (theology) Christendom as God's partner
- (rare) any young woman in a relationship
- (rare) a groom; a man recently married or to be married
Related terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “brīd(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-10.
Portuguese
editVerb
editbride
- inflection of bridar:
Spanish
editPronunciation
editVerb
editbride
- inflection of bridar:
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