bride

See also: Bride and bridé

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd (“bride”), from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bräid (“bride”), West Frisian breid (“bride”), Danish brud (“bride”), Dutch bruid (“bride”), French bru (“daughter-in-law”), German Low German Bruut (“bride”), German Braut (“bride”), Swedish brud (“bride”).

Noun

bride (plural brides)

  1. A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
    • Bible, Revelation xxi. 9
      I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
    • George Lyttelton (1709-1773)
      Has by his own experience tried / How much the wife is dearer than the bride.
    • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
      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.
  2. (obsolete, figuratively) An object ardently loved.
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See also
  • husband-to-be
  • wife-to-be

Verb

bride (third-person singular simple present brides, present participle briding, simple past and past participle brided)

  1. (obsolete) To make a bride of.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French bride (“bridle”).

Noun

bride (plural brides)

  1. An individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

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

  • IPA(key): /bʁid/
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Noun

bride f (plural brides)

  1. (horsemanship) bridle
  2. strap
  3. loop (of a button); bride (of lace)
  4. (medicine) adhesion
  5. flange

Verb

bride

  1. inflection of brider:
    1. first-person and third-person singular present indicative
    2. first-person and third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Italian

Noun

bride f

  1. plural of brida

Spanish

Verb

bride

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of bridar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of bridar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of bridar.
  4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of bridar.
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