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Webster 1913 Edition

Bride

Bride

(brīd)
,
Noun.
[OE.
bride
,
brid
,
brude
,
brud
,
burd
, AS.
brȳd
; akin to OFries.
breid
, OSax.
brūd
, D.
bruid
, OHG.
prūt
,
brūt
, G.
braut
, Icel.
brūðr
, Sw. & Dan.
brud
, Goth.
brūþs
; cf. Armor.
pried
spouse, W.
priawd
a married person.]
1.
A woman newly married, or about to be married.
Has by his own experience tried
How much the wife is dearer than the
bride
.
Lyttleton.
I will show thee the
bride
, the Lamb’s wife.
Rev. xxi. 9.
2.
Fig.: An object ardently loved.
Bride of the sea
,
the city of Venice.

Bride

,
Verb.
T.
To make a bride of.
[Obs.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Bride

BRIDE

,
Noun.
1.
A woman new married.
But the name is applied to a woman at the marriage festival, before she is married, as well as after the ceremony.
2.
A woman espoused, or contracted to be married. The case of Lewellyn, prince of Wales. Henry's Hist.of Britain, B.iv.ch.i.,sect.2. [This is the true original sense of the word.]

Definition 2024

bride

bride

See also: bridé

English

Noun

bride ‎(plural brides)

  1. A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
    • Bible, Revelation xxi. 9
      I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
    • George Lyttelton (1709-1773)
      Has by his own experience tried / How much the wife is dearer than the bride.
    • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
      Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.
  2. (obsolete, figuratively) An object ardently loved.
Derived terms
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
See also
  • husband-to-be
  • wife-to-be

Verb

bride ‎(third-person singular simple present brides, present participle briding, simple past and past participle brided)

  1. (obsolete) To make a bride of.

Etymology 2

Borrowing from French bride ‎(“bridle”).

Noun

bride ‎(plural brides)

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

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Middle French bride, from Old French bride ‎(“rein, bridle”), from Middle High German brīdel ‎(“rein, bridle”), from Old High German brīdil ‎(“rein, bridle”) (compare also Old High German brittil ‎(“rein, strap”), French bretelle), from Proto-Germanic *brigdilaz ‎(“bridle”). Compare Spanish brida, Italian briglia. More at bridle.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʁid/

Noun

bride f ‎(plural brides)

  1. (horsemanship) bridle
  2. strap
  3. loop (of a button); bride (of lace)
  4. (medicine) adhesion
  5. flange

Verb

bride

  1. inflection of brider:
    1. first-person and third-person singular present indicative
    2. first-person and third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Noun

bride f

  1. plural of brida

Spanish

Verb

bride

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of bridar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of bridar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of bridar.
  4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of bridar.

Etymology

From Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd ‎(“bride”), from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz ‎(“bride”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bräid ‎(“bride”), West Frisian breid ‎(“bride”), Danish brud ‎(“bride”), Dutch bruid ‎(“bride”), French bru ‎(“daughter-in-law”), German Low German Bruut ‎(“bride”), German Braut ‎(“bride”), Swedish brud ‎(“bride”).

Pronunciation

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