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bridal

/ˈbraɪ.dl̩/US/ˈbɹaɪd(ə)l/

bridal noun: a wedding feast or festival; a wedding.

Noun

bridal (plural bridals)

  1. (archaic) A wedding feast or festival; a wedding.
    • […] the crowne, which Ariadne wore / Upon her yvory forehead, that same day / That Theseus her unto his bridal bore […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • A Nimph is marryed to a Fay,
      Great preparations for the Day,
      All Rites of Nuptials they recite you,
      To the Brydall and inuite you.1630, Michael Drayton, The Muses Elizium, Lately diſcouered, by a New Way over Parnassvs, London: Thomas Harper, page 67

Adjective

bridal (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial.
    • bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber

bridal meaning in Marathi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

bridal in Marathi

nuptial
वैवाहिक vaivāhik

bridal in Urdu

برائڈل

bridal in Bengali

উদ্বাহ, দাম্পত্য, পাত্রীর, বধূসংক্রান্ত, বিবাহসম্বনধীয়, ঔপদ্বাহিক

bridal in Malayalam

nupital, wedding, marriage
വെെവാഹികം, വെെവാഹ, വെെവാഹിക, വിവാഹസംബന്ധിയായ, ദാമ്പത്യജീവിതത്തെ സംബന്ധിച്ച, ദമ്പതിമാരെസംബന്ധിച്ച

Examples of bridal in a sentence

  • The bridal shower will be held at the home of the bridesmaid.
  • She cast away her bridal dress along with other reminders of the marriage.
  • From pearl-themed bridal showers to pearl-detailed wedding receptions, the “pearlcore” trend is currently big in bridal.

All 28 example sentences with bridal

Forms of bridal

pluralbridals

Origin of bridal

From Middle English bridale, from Old English brȳdealo (“wedding ale; wedding feast”). The attributive usage was strengthened by association with bride + -al.

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Questions about bridal

What does bridal mean?
Bridal means a wedding feast or festival; a wedding.
What is bridal in Marathi?
Bridal in Marathi is वैवाहिक (vaivāhik). See Bridal meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is bridal?
Bridal can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce bridal?
Bridal is pronounced /ˈbraɪ.dl̩/ (UK).
What is the plural of bridal?
The plural of bridal is bridals.

Words near bridal in the dictionary

  1. bricole
  2. bricoles
  3. bricoleur
  4. bricoleurs
  5. BRICS
  6. bridal
  7. bridal bower
  8. bridal bowers
  9. bridal carries
  10. bridal carry
  11. bridal chamber

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bridal (page history and authors); bridal (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bridal (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bridal (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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