bridegroom

American  

[brahyd-groom, -groom] / ˈbraɪdˌgrum, -ˌgrʊm /

noun

1. a newly married man or a man about to be married.

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bridegroom British  

/ ˈbraɪdˌɡruːm, -ˌɡrʊm /

noun

1. a man who has just been or is about to be married

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Etymology

Origin of bridegroom

before 1000; late Middle English ( Scots ) brydgrome, alteration of Middle English bridegome, Old English brȳdguma ( brȳd bride ¹ + guma man, cognate with Latin homō ), with final element conformed to groom

Example Sentences

I love everything I’ve read by Tawada, including “The Naked Eye,” “The Bridegroom Was a Dog” and “Where Europe Begins,” and I’m always floored by her deep attention to language, her neologisms and her strangeness.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2020

All stand as the Bride and Bridegroom return to the Quire.

From BBC • May 19, 2018

"Bridegroom," a film about the relationship between gay men and two movies set in Uganda "Call Me Kuchu" and "God Loves Uganda," were nominated in the outstanding documentary category.

From Reuters • Jan. 30, 2014

Well, perhaps; but if nobody had had that idea, we'd not have had When the Bridegroom Comes by Judee Sill, would we?

From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2013

She’d wanted to go to a local showing of the documentary Bridegroom instead.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon