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child-bride

child-bride is the alternative spelling of child bride.

Meaning of child bride

Noun

child bride (plural child brides)

  1. A very young bride, usually coerced or pressured into nuptials with a much older man, as practiced in some cultures.
    • Saudi Arabia is one of the countries that allow minor girls to be child brides.

Forms of child-bride

pluralchild-brides

Questions about child-bride

What is child-bride the alternative spelling of?
Child-bride is the alternative spelling of child bride.

Words near child-bride in the dictionary

  1. child-bearings
  2. child-bed
  3. child-beds
  4. child-birth
  5. child-births
  6. child-bride
  7. child-brides
  8. child-centered
  9. child-crowing
  10. child-directed speech
  11. child-free

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Adapted from Wiktionary: child-bride (page history and authors); child 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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