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bride

1 American  
[brahyd] / braɪd /

noun

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

bride 2 American  
[brahyd, breed] / braɪd, brid /

noun

  1. Also called bar, leg, tie.  a connection consisting of a thread or a number of threads for joining various solid parts of a design in needlepoint lace.

  2. an ornamental bonnet string.

Bride 3 American  
[brahyd] / braɪd /

noun

  1. Saint. Brigid, Saint.

Bride 1 British  
/ braɪd /

noun

  1. See Bridget

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bride 2 British  
/ braɪd /

noun

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

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bride 3 British  
/ braɪd /

noun

  1. Also called: bar.  lacemaking needlework a thread or loop that joins parts of a pattern

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bride Idioms  

  1. see give away (the bride).

Other Word Forms

Etymology

Origin of bride1

before 1000; Middle English; Old English brȳd; cognate with Dutch bruid, German Braut, Old Norse brūthr, Gothic brūths

Origin of bride2

1865–70; < French: bonnet-string, bridle, Old French < Germanic; see bridle

Example Sentences

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Last summer, rumors swirled that Jeff Bezos was toying with buying Vogue, and possibly Condé Nast, for his bride as a wedding present.

From Salon • May 6, 2026

The mother of the bride, Phyllis Amaral, shepherded family members to a handful of front-row folding chairs.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

“We have to take on more inventory risk, we have to be more flexible in the aspect of how the traditional bride orders now,” he said of designers and bridal-gown sellers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

With $9.1 million, fourth place went to Searchlight's "Ready or Not 2," a follow-up to the 2019 original comedy horror in which a bride must survive a deadly game of hide-and-seek with her new in-laws.

From Barron's • Mar. 22, 2026

“Maybe you will be a bride before too long. When we arrive in Constantinople, we will take our time finding you a good husband.”

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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