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bride

bride

541 1.0
A woman on her wedding day or who has just got married
  • noun
  • /braɪd/
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  • The guests stood up and clapped as the bride walked down the aisle in her white dress.
  • the bride and groom
  • the bride's dress
  • the bride's family

DOWRYA payment made by the bride's family to the groom.

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Examples

  • Ladies and gentlemen, let's raise our glasses to the bride and groom.

  • You may now kiss the bride.

  • I would say to the bride, however, So what?

  • We're raised with the the picture book wedding of the bride in the white dress.

  • Being called Mother of the Bride makes me feel very special.

  • In her heart, she was still his bride, and she knew that she always would be.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • My beautiful bride, wherever she may be.

  • Now I can kiss the bride.

  • We've got a little present for the bride.

  • I was vacationing when it first came out in Cancun with my beautiful bride.

Synonyms

newlywed
vsbride
62 2.0

A person who has recently married

is female specific and used for a woman on her wedding day

Compounds

A couple who are getting married at a wedding

24 2.8

A woman who is engaged to be married

3 7.8

Money or goods the groom gives to the bride's family when they marry

1 5.8

A woman who marries a soldier during a war and moves to his country

A present given to a woman when she gets married

A woman who gets married in December

How Close

bride
541 1.0
bachelorette
  • US
35 3.8
fiancee
1 2.0
boyfriend
1.0
single
96 1.8

Surface Forms

bride singular
brides plural

Etymology

Bride comes from an old English word bryd that meant 'a woman about to be married' or 'a young woman'. You can see the same root in bridal, so the word still means the woman on her wedding day.