bridegroom
Americannoun
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bridegrooms
plural
noun
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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
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“An hour before the ceremony, the bridegroom swaggers in in his white undershirt,” Weiss writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
Assi said at least 65 people, including the bridegroom, were rescued on Monday, but 29 people, including children, were still missing.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2022
If the bride cannot tolerate yielding the spotlight, even for a few minutes, to her own 90-year-old grandmother, perhaps someone should warn the bridegroom.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2022
"We got arrested together - Asya, our friends and even her parents," said the bridegroom.
From BBC ● May 27, 2022
I acted in the capacity of backer, or best-man, to the bridegroom; while a little limp pew-opener in a soft bonnet like a baby’s, made a feint of being the bosom friend of Miss Skiffins.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Similar to the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, brides and bridegrooms left handprints and their names and wedding dates pressed into cement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2025
He works with more than 50 bridegrooms a year, mainly wanting a second or third wife – but insists never with underage brides.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 1, 2018
Amichai starts in his usual modest, accessible way—he is sitting in a waiting room, with bridegrooms who are much younger than the poet.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2016
Some tables, like one with a big pink wedding cake with two bridegrooms atop or another with life-size silhouettes at each place, were gleefully outlandish.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2012
One contemporary critic described Les Noces as 'enough to convert intending brides and bridegrooms to celibacy’.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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