war bride

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noun

a woman who marries a serviceman about to go overseas in wartime.

a woman who marries a foreign serviceman and goes to live in his country.

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Origin of war bride

First recorded in 1915–20

Words nearby war bride

warble, warble fly, warbler, warbling vireo, war bonnet, war bride, Warburg, warchalking, war chest, war cloud, war correspondent

How to use war bride in a sentence

They are, to say the least, preparing for civil war (the polling stations are stormed by armed gangs).
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Cold War fears could be manipulated through misleading art to attract readers to daunting material.
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Kennedy: "Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind."
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It is not a decisive war, with a single, signature victory, but a war of attrition.
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He distinguished himself in several campaigns, especially in the Peninsular war, and was raised to the rank of field marshal.
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The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.
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His 6,000 native auxiliaries (as it proved later on) could not be relied upon in a civil war.
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"There is no more war," Brion translated for Ulv, realizing that the Disan had understood nothing of the explanation.
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I cannot reconcile the idea of a tender Heavenly Father with the known horrors of war, slavery, pestilence, and insanity.
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British Dictionary definitions for war bride

war bride

noun

a soldier's bride met as a result of troop movements in wartime, esp a foreign national

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