child bride

noun

1. a very young bride.

Word History and Origins

Origin of child bride¹

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

Dashi, who arrived in the UK a child bride, 13, from Somalia, has called for more education to "bring communities together".

From BBC

She became a victim of female genital mutilation, and arrived in the UK as a child bride aged just 13 to be with her then-husband.

From BBC

But Fox is fixated on Poe’s dead-girl literature and his real-life marriage to a child bride.

From Los Angeles Times

The House of Habsburg was highly inbred — estimates are that over 80% of marriages within the Spanish branch of the dynasty were between close blood relatives — and both the king and his child bride, an uncle and niece, sported the same long nose, protruding lower lip and so-called “Habsburg jaw.”

From Los Angeles Times

The last queen of France, Marie Antoinette was born in Austria in 1755 and sent to France to be the child bride of the future King Louis XVI.

From BBC