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mail-order brides

mail-order brides is the plural of mail-order bride.

Meaning of mail-order bride

Noun

mail-order bride (plural mail-order brides)

  1. A woman who is listed in a catalogue to be selected by a man for marriage.

Questions about mail-order brides

What is mail-order brides the plural of?
Mail-order brides is the plural of mail-order bride.

Words near mail-order brides in the dictionary

  1. mail-merged
  2. mail-merges
  3. mail-merging
  4. mail-order
  5. mail-order bride
  6. mail-order brides
  7. mail-order cowboy
  8. mail-order cowboys
  9. mail-ordered
  10. mail-ordering
  11. mail-orders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mail-order brides (page history and authors); mail-order 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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