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From Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd (bride), from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (bride).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bräid (bride), West Frisian breid (bride), German Low German Bruut (bride), Dutch bruid (bride), German Braut (bride), Danish brud (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.
    Coordinate terms: bridegroom, groom
    • 1746, George Lyttelton, An Irregular Ode:

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

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

woman in the context of her own wedding

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

Inherited 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-West Germanic *brigdil (bridle).

Compare Spanish brida, Italian briglia. More at bridle.

bride f (plural brides)

  1. (equestrianism) 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 f

  1. plural of brida

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

  • IPA(key): /ˈbriːd(ə)/, (West Midlands, Southern) /ˈbryːd(ə)/

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

bride

  1. inflection of bridar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
  • IPA(key): /ˈbɾide/ [ˈbɾi.ð̞e]
  • Rhymes: -ide
  • Syllabification: bri‧de

bride

  1. inflection of bridar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative