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CIDE DICTIONARY
bride, n. [OE. bride, brid, brude, brud, burd, AS. br; akin to OFries. breid, OSax. br, D. bruid, OHG. pr, br, G. braut, Icel. br, Sw. & Dan. brud, Goth. br; cf. Armor. pried spouse, W. priawd a married person.].
- A woman newly married, or about to be married. [1913 Webster]"Has by his own experience tried
How much the wife is dearer than the bride." [1913 Webster]"I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife." [1913 Webster] - Fig.: An object ardently loved. [1913 Webster]
bride, v. t.
To make a bride of. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bride, n. a woman on her wedding day and for some time before and after it.
Idiom
bride-cake a wedding cake. bride-price money or goods given to a bride's family esp. in primitive societies.
Etymology
OE bryd f. Gmc
ROGET THESAURUS
bride
Marriage
N marriage, matrimony, wedlock, union, intermarriage, miscegenation, the bonds of marriage, vinculum matrimonii, nuptial tie, married state, coverture, bed, cohabitation, match, betrothment, wedding, nuptials, Hymen, bridal, espousals, spousals, leading to the altar, nuptial benediction, epithalamium, sealing, torch of Hymen, temple of Hymen, hymeneal altar, honeymoon, bridesmaid, bridesman, best man, bride, bridegroom, married man, married woman, married couple, neogamist, Benedict, partner, spouse, mate, yokemate, husband, man, consort, baron, old man, good man, wife of one's bosom, helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare, old woman, old lady, good wife, goodwife, feme, feme coverte, squaw, lady, matron, matronage, matronhood, man and wife, wedded pair, Darby and Joan, spiritual wife, monogamy, bigamy, digamy, deuterogamy, trigamy, polygamy, mormonism, levirate, spiritual wifery, spiritual wifeism, polyandrism, Turk, bluebeard, unlawful marriage, left-handed marriage, morganatic marriage, ill- assorted marriage, mesalliance, mariage de convenance, marriage broker, matrimonial agency, matrimonial agent, matrimonial bureau, matchmaker, schatchen, married, one, one bone and one flesh, marriageable, nubile, engaged, betrothed, affianced, matrimonial, marital, conjugal, connubial, wedded, nuptial, hymeneal, spousal, bridal, the gray mare the better horse, a world-without-end bargain, marriages are made in Heaven, render me worthy of this noble wife, si qua voles apte nubere nube pari.Also see definition of "bride" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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