bride
/bɹaɪd/
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Northumbria/bɹɛɪd/
bride noun: a woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
Noun (1)
bride (plural brides)
- A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
- I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 21:9
- Has by his own experience tried
How much the wife is dearer than the bride.1746, George Lyttelton, An Irregular Ode
- An object ardently loved.
Verb
bride (third-person singular simple present brides, present participle briding, simple past and past participle brided)
- to make a bride of
Noun (2)
bride (plural brides)
- an individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework
Proper noun capitalized: Bride
Bride (countable and uncountable, plural Brides)
- A surname.
- A parish of the sheading of Ayre, Isle of Man.
bride meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
bride in Hindi
- woman in the context of her own wedding
- दुल्हन dulhan, नवोढा navoḍhā, नववधू navavdhū, वधू vadhū, अरूस arūs
bride in Tamil
- woman in the context of her own wedding
- மணப்பெண் maṇappeṇ
bride in Marathi
- woman in the context of her own wedding
- नवरी navrī, वधू vadhū
bride in Urdu
- woman in the context of her own wedding
- دُلْہَن dulhan, عَرُوس 'arūs
More languagesFewer languages
- bride in Bengali
- বধূ bodhu
- bride in Telugu
- వధువు vadhuvu, పెళ్ళి కూతురు peḷḷi kūturu
- bride in Malayalam
- വധു vadhu, മണവാട്ടി maṇavāṭṭi, പെണ്ണ് peṇṇŭ, പുതിയെണ്ണ് putiyeṇṇŭ
- bride in Kannada
- ಮದುಮಗಳು madumagaḷu, ವಧು vadhu
- bride in Punjabi
- دھن dhan, ਧਨ dhan, ووہٹی vauhṭī, ਲਾੜੀ lāṛī
- bride in Gujarati
- નવવધૂ navavdhū, નવોઢા navoḍhā
- bride in Sanskrit
- वधू vadhū
- bride in Assamese
- কইনা koina
- bride in Nepali
- दुलही dulahī, वधू vadhū, बेहुली behulī
- bride in Pashto
- جنجۍ janjə́y, عروس 'arūs
- bride in Arabic
- عَرُوس ʕarūs
- bride in Malay
- pengantin perempuan
- bride in Indonesian
- pengantin, pengantin perempuan
- bride in Thai
- เจ้าสาว jâo-sǎao
- bride in Vietnamese
- cô dâu
- bride in Myanmar
- သတို့သမီး sa.tui.sa.mi:
- Kashmiri
- مَہاریٚنؠ mahāren'
Examples of bride in a sentence
- On this happy evening, I give you the bride and groom!
- Bride of Frankenstein is an old film, but it holds up.
- Just before it was to be his shout, he was off like a bride′s nightie.
Forms of bride
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | brides |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | brides |
| present participle | briding |
| past participle | brided |
| past | brided |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Brides |
Origin of bride
From Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd (“bride”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride”). Cognates Cognate with Yola breede (“bride”), Saterland Frisian Bräid (“bride”), Alemannic German Bruut (“bride”), Central Franconian Brock, Brutt, Bruut (“bride”), Dutch bruid (“bride”), German and Luxembourgish Braut (“bride”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish brud (“bride”), Faroese and Icelandic brúður (“bride”), Norwegian Nynorsk brud, brur (“bride”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌸𐍃 (bruþs, “bride”), French bru (“daughter-in-law”), Friulian brût (“daughter-in-law”) (from Old High German brut (“bride”)).
Borrowed from French bride (“bridle”).
* As an Irish and Scottish surname, shortened from McBride. * As an English surname, metathesized from Bird.
Words formed from bride
- always a bridesmaid, never a bride
- blushing bride
- bridal
- bride-ale
- brideangroom
- bridebed
- bridecake
- bridechamber
- bride dress
- bride-gift
- bride gift
- bridegroom
- bridehood
- brideless
- bridelet
- bridelike
- bridely
- bridemaid
- bridenapping
- Bride of the Red Sea
- Bride of the Sea
- bride price
- bride-price
- bridesmaid
- bridesmaiden
- bridesman
- bridesmatron
- brideswear
- bride-to-be
- bride token
- bridewain
- bride-wealth
- bridewealth
- bride wealth
- bride wear
- bridewear
- bridewort
- bridey
- bridezilla
- bridie
- child-bride
- child bride
- cyberbride
- December bride
- hell bride
- mail-order bride
- mourning bride
- off like a bride's nightie
- picture bride
- runaway bride
- the bride at every wedding
- the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral
- war bride
- would-be bride
Phrases with bride
Words that rhyme with bride
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- provide
- tied
- fried
- glide
- hide
- inside
- bide
- decide
- offside
- -side
- collide
- confide
- flipside
- set aside
- stride
- subside
- aside
- beride
- beside
- bestride
- chide
- coincide
- cyanide
- dried
- elide
- eyed
- gride
- preside
- reside
- Ryde
- allied
- applied
- astride
- betide
- deride
- dyed
- guyed
- I'd
- imide
- incide
- pied
- right side
- said
- snide
- statewide
- tried
- vide
- allide
Questions about bride
- What does bride mean?
- Bride means a woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
- What is bride in Hindi?
- Bride in Hindi is दुल्हन (dulhan), नवोढा (navoḍhā), नववधू (navavdhū). See Bride meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bride?
- Bride can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bride?
- Bride is pronounced /bɹaɪd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of bride?
- The plural of bride is brides.
Words near bride in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bride (page history and authors); Bride (page history and authors); പുതിയെണ്ണ് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); دھن (Punjabi) (page history and authors). 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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