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child brides

child brides is the plural 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.

Questions about child brides

What is child brides the plural of?
Child brides is the plural of child bride.

Words near child brides in the dictionary

  1. child bed
  2. child beds
  3. child benefit
  4. child birth
  5. child bride
  6. child brides
  7. child car seat
  8. child car seats
  9. child care
  10. child carrier
  11. child carriers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: child brides (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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