bride
/brʌɪd
/noun
A woman on her wedding day or just before and after the event: the bride and groom left early last night...
- How do I prevent the all too familiar pre-wedding bloating experienced by so many brides on their wedding day?
- Now there's a girl who knows how to dress for an event without stealing the bride's thunder.
- The chair is for the bride to sit and the groom to remove the bride's garter from her leg.
Synonyms
newly-wed, honeymooner;
marriage partner, wife;
blushing bride;
war bride, GI bride
Phrases
like a bride's nightie
Origin
Old English brȳd, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bruid and German Braut.
In Old English bride was bryd. The bridegroom had nothing to do with the word groom. The original form was brydguma, from guma ‘man’. This second part was always a slightly poetic word, and by the end of the Middle Ages people would not have recognized it. So they substituted a word they did know. The origin of bridal shows that people have always partied at weddings. The word comes from Old English bryd-ealu ‘wedding feast’, from bryd ‘bride’ and ealu ‘ale-drinking’.
Rhymes
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