bride

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɹaɪd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪd

From Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd (“bride”), from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bräid (“bride”), West Frisian breid (“bride”), Danish brud (“bride”), Dutch bruid (“bride”), French bru (“daughter-in-law”), German Low German Bruut (“bride”), German Braut (“bride”), Swedish brud (“bride”).

bride (plural brides)

1. A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
   • Bible, Revelation xxi. 9

     I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

   • (Can we date this quote?) George Lyttelton

     Has by his own experience tried / How much the wife is dearer than the bride.

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:

     Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.

   Coordinate terms: bridegroom, groom

2. (obsolete, figuratively) An object ardently loved.

• husband-to-be
• wife-to-be

bride (third-person singular simple present brides, present participle briding, simple past and past participle brided)

1. (obsolete) to make a bride of

Borrowed from French bride (“bridle”).

bride (plural brides)

1. an individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework

• bider, birde, rebid

From Middle French bride, from Old French bride (“rein, bridle”), from Middle High German brīdel (“rein, bridle”), from Old High German brīdil (“rein, bridle”) (compare also Old High German brittil (“rein, strap”), French bretelle), from Proto-Germanic *brigdilaz (“bridle”). Compare Spanish brida, Italian briglia. More at bridle.

• IPA^(key): /bʁid/

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• Rhymes: -id

bride f (plural brides)

1. (horsemanship) bridle
2. strap
3. loop (of a button); bride (of lace)
4. (medicine) adhesion
5. flange

bride

1. inflection of brider:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “bride” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

bride f

1. plural of brida

• brid, bryd, bryde, brude

Inherited from Old English brȳd, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride, daughter-in-law”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbriːd/

bride (plural brides or bruden)

1. a bride; a woman recently married or to be married
2. (theology) Christendom as God's partner
3. (rare) any young woman in a relationship
4. (rare) a groom; a man recently married or to be married

• English: bride
• Scots: bride
• Yola: breede

• “brīd(e (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-10.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾide/, [ˈbɾiðe]

bride

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of bridar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of bridar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of bridar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of bridar.