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
Example Sentences
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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
Saleem Assi said at least 65 people, including the bridegroom, were rescued and nearly two dozen people, including children, were still missing.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2022
"We got arrested together - Asya, our friends and even her parents," said the bridegroom.
From BBC ● May 27, 2022
“The first thing that happens is you say to the nominee, ‘Your role indeed is that of a bridegroom at a wedding,’” he said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2022
I would have for a new husband my own playmate, dear since childhood, who loved me so much he was to become a spirit bridegroom for my sake.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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
Look closely at any location, sea or beachscape, and a wedding couple will pop up — brides and bridegrooms in mixed and matched pairs: opposite sex, same sex, varied races and nationalities.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2016
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
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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