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brides

/bɹaɪdz/

brides is the plural of bride.

brides is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bride.

Meaning of bride

Noun (1)

bride (plural brides)

  1. 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
  2. (figuratively, obsolete) An object ardently loved.

Noun (2)

bride (plural brides)

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

See all 6 meanings of bride

Proper noun capitalized: Brides

Brides

  1. (plural) plural of Bride

Phrases with brides

2 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with brides

13 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about brides

What is brides the plural of?
Brides is the plural of bride.
What part of speech is brides?
Brides is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce brides?
Brides is pronounced /bɹaɪdz/.

Words near brides in the dictionary

  1. bridenapping
  2. Bridenstine
  3. Bridenstines
  4. brideprice
  5. brideprices
  6. brides
  7. brides-to-be
  8. Bridesburg
  9. Brideshead
  10. Bridesheadian
  11. brideship

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brides (page history and authors); Brides (page history and authors); bride (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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