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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bride
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
virgin bride
▪ a virgin bride
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
beautiful
▪ Minnie did not attend the wedding but everyone else thought that Helen was a beautiful bride.
new
▪ Sam was obviously head over heels in love with is new bride, and Martha was clearly content.
▪ This she anointed with deadly drugs and placing it in a casket she sent her sons with it to the new bride.
▪ Jeffrey Horsfield with his new bride Deborah.
▪ A new bride is the least powerful person in the household.
▪ Hugh Hefner has devoted a little bit of Playboy to his new bride, Kimberley.
▪ When she saw that the new bride was Snow White, her evil heart swelled with passion and burst.
▪ Tradition tells that Peden told the new bride to -.
young
▪ The young bride in her husband's family does not automatically receive love and a secure position.
▪ Walks of over twelve miles, and carries through the wild woods were strenuous for the young bride.
▪ But the situation of the young bride improves as soon as she conceives.
▪ But my dear, you are a young bride.
▪ Happily they lived together for several weeks, until Killigrew told his young bride that duty called him to town.
▪ Still, Amelia had it easier than any other young bride arriving in Atchison to live.
■ NOUN
child
▪ The entire station knew about his spoiled child bride.
▪ The third sister, Ankhsenpaaten, had been given as a child bride to Tutankhaten.
▪ Her character - child bride Fizz - will leave the show in two months' time.
▪ Kathy Pitkin, who was child bride Fizz, has already left the screen.
■ VERB
bring
▪ And occasionally to bring back a bride.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the blushing bride
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Everyone turned around as the bride entered the church.
▪ He took his young bride to live on the ranch in Wyoming.
▪ Teenage brides are twice as likely to end up being divorced as women who marry later.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Emperor Justinian had chosen this young woman as his bride.
▪ Hugh Hefner has devoted a little bit of Playboy to his new bride, Kimberley.
▪ Still, Amelia had it easier than any other young bride arriving in Atchison to live.
▪ The bride and groom pose for photographs to be taken by the official photographer and relatives who have brought their cameras.
▪ The third sister, Ankhsenpaaten, had been given as a child bride to Tutankhaten.
▪ Theseus leaped to the defense of the bride and struck down the Gentaur who was trying to carry her off.
▪ This was Nahum's wedding gift to his bride.
▪ When when they left the church the bride and groom were followed by the best man and the bridesmaid.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bride

Bride \Bride\, v. t. To make a bride of. [Obs.]

Bride

Bride \Bride\ (br[imac]d), n. [OE. bride, brid, brude, brud, burd, AS. br[=y]d; akin to OFries. breid, OSax. br[=u]d, D. bruid, OHG. pr[=u]t, br[=u]t, G. braut, Icel. br[=u][eth]r, Sw. & Dan. brud, Goth. br[=u][thorn]s; cf. Armor. pried spouse, W. priawd a married person.]

  1. A woman newly married, or about to be married.

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

    I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
    --Rev. xxi. 9.

  2. Fig.: An object ardently loved.

    Bride of the sea, the city of Venice.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bride

Old English bryd "bride, betrothed or newly married woman," from Proto-Germanic *bruthiz "woman being married" (cognates: Old Frisian breid, Dutch bruid, Old High German brut, German Braut "bride"). Gothic cognate bruþs, however, meant "daughter-in-law," and the form of the word borrowed from Old High German into Medieval Latin (bruta) and Old French (bruy) had only this sense. In ancient Indo-European custom, the married woman went to live with her husband's family, so the only "newly wed female" in such a household would have been the daughter-in-law. On the same notion, some trace the word itself to the PIE verbal root *bru- "to cook, brew, make broth," as this likely was the daughter-in-law's job.

Wiktionary
bride

Etymology 1 n. A woman who is going to marry or who has just been married. vb. (context obsolete English) To make a bride of. Etymology 2

n. An individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework.

WordNet
bride
  1. n. a woman who has recently been married

  2. Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523) [syn: Bridget, Saint Bridget, St. Bridget, Brigid, Saint Brigid, St. Brigid, Saint Bride, St. Bride]

  3. a woman participant in her own marriage ceremony

Wikipedia
Bride

A bride is a woman who is about to be married or who is newlywed.

When marrying a man, the bride's future spouse is usually referred to as the bridegroom or groom. In Western culture, a bride may be attended by one or more bridesmaids.

Bride (band)

Bride were an American Christian rock band formed in the 1980s, by brothers Dale and Troy Thompson. During the band's peak years it was known for covering a wide range of musical styles and remains popular in places like Brazil. Their song "Same 'Ol Sinner" is on the Digital Praise PC game Guitar Praise.

Bride (disambiguation)

A bride is a female participant in a wedding ceremony.

Bride(s) or The Bride may also refer to:

Brìde
Bride (parish)

Bride , named after St. Brigid, is a parish in the Sheading of Ayre and lies in the extreme north of the Isle of Man. The parish lies to the east of Andreas and to the north of Lezayre, bordering the sea to the north and east. The parish covers an area of about and contains the village of Bride or Kirk Bride.

The population, according to the 2006 census, is 418 (2001 - 408)

There is a range of sandhills crossing the parish from west to Point Cranstal (not actually a point) in the east, from which a good view may be obtained of the Manx mountains as well as of the Scottish and Cumbrian mountains (with the Solway Firth in between). The Galloway coast is about away. At the Point of Ayre is a lighthouse. On old maps Point Cranstal is referred to as "Shellag Point" and a hamlet named Cranstal is marked close to it, but has long since disappeared.

Usage examples of "bride".

The labia was normal, what you would assume post intercourse and there were no internal abrasions like with the first bride.

If you decide that you want to be the bride, Lord Renald will arrange for you to come into Summerbourne and for me to join Amice in the camp.

Ivy round her glimmering ancle, Vine about her glowing brow, Never sure was bride so beauteous, Daphne, chosen nymph, as thou!

Harun al Raschid returned to his very distant land where the populace did indeed enjoy a never-ending series of fart jokes, and Sinbad and Fatima were returned to human form after a most enjoyable apehood, and then were accompanied back to Baghdad by Achmed and his new bride, Marjanah, and all were showered with gifts from that elder Sinbad, who was rich again, at least for the time being, and was much relieved to see them.

Our crew was Enherrian, his wife Whell, their grown children Rusa and Arrach, my beautiful new bride Olga, and me.

Apres avoir attache la bride de son cheval a une branche, il regardait son tableau en lui faisant ses observations et ses compliments.

She were lying under a down quiltme wedding gift to the bride, Hindoo lady up in Ponda sewed it for mebut just as we came in she shrugged it off, and you could see her bare as a babby to the waist.

Assuredly a Dudley Sowerby would be immensely startled to find in his bride a young woman more than babily aware of the existence of one particular form of naughtiness on earth.

When the usual festivities had taken place, and the wonted largesses had been distributed, Gunther bade his bride prepare to follow him back to the Rhine with her personal female attendants, who numbered no less than one hundred and sixty-eight.

Hobbie will hae a merry morning when he comes hame, and misses baith bride and gear.

A separate race wrapped in wedding-white gauze, and Beane wanted me now for his bride.

I was determined to start the next day so as to be at Rome for the last week of the carnival and I begged the duke to let me give Leonilda the five thousand ducats which would have been her dower if she had become my bride.

The child, young lady, was not then mortgaged in the cradle, and, mark ye, the bride, when she kneeled at the altar, gave not herself up, body and soul, to be the bondswoman of the Jew, but to be the helpmate of the spouse.

That the bride was the daughter of the man who had won Bonheur at cards had caused a stampede.

This was followed by a cheer, for it was the signal to escort the groom to his bridal tent where, presumably, the bride waited in perfumed, bejeweled splendor.