newlywed
Americannoun
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newlyweds
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of newlywed
Explanation
A newlywed is a person who's recently gotten married. If you just got married this morning, you and your new spouse are newlyweds. Congrats! Some people will consider you a newlywed for several years after the actual wedding. The word comes from a popular early twentieth century comic strip about characters named Mr. and Mrs Newlywed called "The Newlyweds and their Baby," which was published in a New York newspaper.
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Bettina Trump's Instagram post was accompanied by 20 photos including one of the newlywed couple on a beach, and others of President Trump's other children Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump and Tiffany Trump.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
His newlywed wife quit her job at a New York advertising agency to join him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
The Indian wing of WhatsApp recently released a glossy, nine-minute advert telling the story of a fictional newlywed couple in rural India who fall in love via voice note.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
When she was a newlywed in the early 1980s, she took a tax course to get some practice filing returns.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026
Except she called it love and went off, happy as a newlywed.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Looking back, the newlyweds say Scotland exceeded every expectation.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The newlyweds also explained that, though they value privacy, optics are important for at least one very important reason.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Su Yuyun, who runs a small cafe at the Nanjing Romantic Center, makes special drinks for newlyweds and gives away custom refrigerator magnets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
It’s currently unclear exactly where the newlyweds will base themselves full time.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
They should have been in my office that day with those two newlyweds looking at me as though I were telling them something nobody’d ever heard of before.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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