bride1
- a newly married woman or a woman about to be married.
Origin of bride1
bride2
Origin of bride2
Bride
- Saint. Brigid, Saint.
Examples from the Web for bride
Contemporary Examples
When she arrived, she saw that Little Snow White was the bride.
He became paranoid that his bride would be kidnapped, and told her to never go to the same place twice.
Women threw rice on peshmerga fighters, a tradition practiced at Syrian weddings when neighbors welcome the bride and groom.
Remembering Kobani Before The SiegeMustafa Abdi, Movements.Org, Advancing Human Rights
November 8, 2014
And one daughter said “princesses” and the other said “bride.”
Cary Elwes, aka Westley, Shares Inconceivable Tales From the Making of ‘The Princess Bride’Marlow Stern
September 17, 2014
Princess Charlene of Monaco, the athletic, South African bride of Prince Albert, is also with child.
Historical Examples
You haven't seen the bride's table in the tent yet, have you, Hippy?
Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton CampusJessie Graham Flower
There was no lessening of the bride's composure as she replied, with a little shrug.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
"No," the bride replied, and there was determination in the monosyllable.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
Since then, he had striven to obtain another interview with his bride, but she had refused him.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
No well-regulated Thames inn can exist a week without a bride and groom.
The UnderdogF. Hopkinson Smith
bride1
- a woman who has just been or is about to be married
Word Origin
bride2
- lacemaking needlework a thread or loop that joins parts of a patternAlso called: bar
Word Origin
Bride
- Saint Bride See Bridget (def. 1)
Word Origin and History for bride
n.
Old English bryd "bride, betrothed or newly married woman," from Proto-Germanic *bruthiz "woman being married" (cf. Old Frisian breid, Dutch bruid, Old High German brut, German Braut "bride"). Gothic cognate bruþs, however, meant "daughter-in-law," and the form of the word borrowed from Old High German into Medieval Latin (bruta) and Old French (bruy) had only this sense. In ancient Indo-European custom, the married woman went to live with her husband's family, so the only "newly wed female" in such a household would have been the daughter-in-law. On the same notion, some trace the word itself to the PIE verbal root *bru- "to cook, brew, make broth," as this likely was the daughter-in-law's job.