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View synonyms for bridegroom

bridegroom

[ brahyd-groom, -groom ]

noun

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


bridegroom

/ ˈbraɪdˌɡruːm; -ˌɡrʊm /

noun

  1. a man who has just been or is about to be married
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bridegroom1

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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Word History and Origins

Origin of bridegroom1

C14: changed (through influence of groom ) from Old English brӯdguma , from brӯd bride 1+ guma man; related to Old Norse brūthgumi , Old High German brūtigomo
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Example Sentences

I felt like the spirit of a departed bridegroom hovering over the scene of his own wedding.

Bride and bridegroom, accompanied by the weeping crowd, proceeded to the castle gate.

A ghostly mate would be no very pleasant bridegroom for a young lady.

And the bridegroom shall rejoice over the bride, and thy God shall rejoice over thee.

Tressan was ugly as a toad, the most absurd, ridiculous bridegroom that ever led woman to the altar.

Both the bridegroom and the bride were mere children, the bridegroom only fifteen, the bride only eleven.

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