bride
noun
a newly married woman or a woman about to be married.
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bride
1 American
[brahyd]
/ braɪd /
noun
bride
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American
[brahyd, br eed]
/ braɪd, brid /
noun
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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.
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an ornamental bonnet string.
Bride
3
American
[brahyd]
/ braɪd /
noun
Bride
1
British
/ braɪd /
noun
bride
2
British
/ braɪd /
noun
bride
3
British
/ braɪd /
noun
bride
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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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Of course, some men have always cared about wedding details and gotten at least as involved as the bride.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
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
Such waivers existed before the rise of GLP-1s, but are more fraught when a bride is losing a substantial amount of weight.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026
In those movies, as an unsuspecting bride thrust into a life-or-death situation, she appealingly balanced a convincing physical performance with an understated comedic streak, her beleaguered character enduring one absurdity after another.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
“You have to sit next to him. That’s where the bride sits.”
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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