war bride
1
5.8
- noun
- /wɔr braɪd/
:
novia de guerra
- She often shares stories about her life as a war bride during World War II, highlighting the challenges she faced.
Examples
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There are families with them as well: the 18-year-old war bride pushing her 19-year-old husband's wheelchair and not quite understanding why her husband is so affected by this; the boy she grew up with, now a man, who had never shed a tear, is crying; the older immigrant Latino parents who have, perhaps more than their wounded mid-20s son, an appreciation for the emotion given on their son's behalf.
Blog text (2) -
A boy raises his hand and announces, "My dad says you're a war bride."
Academic text (2006) -
I was a war bride.
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She'd been relieved when so many war brides turned up.
Fiction book (2000) -
Japanese war brides received chilly welcomes from established blacks and Japanese of the city who resented them.
Academic text (2003) -
For example, in the instance of understanding domestic violence among American GIs married to Korean war brides, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and power all need to be understood as the basis for progressive social policy.
Academic text (1994) -
He married his war bride Isolina Clara Sainati of Livorno on December 1, 1945.
Blog text (27) -
Even if ambitions for full inclusion into minority communities were rarely realized, war brides and their husbands still raised the profile of mixed marriages and helped erode opposition to them.
Academic text (2003) -
The Los Angeles Sentinel, a prominent black newspaper, reported in 1948 that the foreign wives of black GIs faced obstacles in their married lives, but fared "better than war brides of whites," who were more often "jilted and divorced."
Academic text (2003) -
After the war ended, many soldiers returned home with their war brides, who had come from different countries.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines the noun 'war' as a modifier with 'bride' (a woman who marries), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a woman who marries in the context of a war (typically to a serviceman). The additional nuance about often coming from another country is not fully encoded but the core meaning is transparently compositional and readily predictable across languages.
Etymology
War bride comes from the simple image of a bride who married during a war, often a local woman who met a soldier and then moved to his country. Because many women married soldiers during big wars and left their homes, the phrase came to mean 'a woman who marries a soldier or serviceman during a war'.