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Definition of Bride
1. Noun. A woman who has recently been married.
2. Noun. Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523).
Generic synonyms: Abbess, Mother Superior, Prioress, Saint
3. Noun. A woman participant in her own marriage ceremony.
Definition of Bride
1. n. A woman newly married, or about to be married.
2. v. t. To make a bride of.
Definition of Bride
1. Noun. A woman who is going to marry or who has just been married. ¹
2. Verb. (obsolete) To make a bride of. ¹
3. Noun. An individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bride
1. a woman just married or about to be married [n -S]
Medical Definition of Bride
1. 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. An object ardently loved. Bride of the sea, the city of Venice. Origin: OE. Bride, brid, brude, brud, burd, AS. Brd; akin to OFries. Breid, OSax. Brd, D. Bruid, OHG. Prt, brt, G. Braut, Icel. Brr, Sw. & Dan. Brud, Goth. Br33s; cf. Armor. Pried spouse, W. Priawd a married person. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bride
Literary usage of Bride
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"They go from house to house, the May bride singing a song in which she asks for
a present, and tells the inmates of each house that if they give her ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"And after the "Pater" is said a pall is held over the heads of the bride and ...
Thus, the father of the bridegroom now leads the bride, and the mother of ..."
3. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"On the wedding day itself, bride and bridegroom bathed in water drawn from a
particular fountain of running water : at Athens this was the fountain ..."
4. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"He stayed not for brake and he stopped not for stone, He swam the Eske river
where ford there was none; 320 The bride had consented, the gallant came late: ..."
5. The Red Badge of Courage and Four Stories by Stephen Crane (1997)
"The bride was not pretty, nor was she very young. She wore a dress of blue
cashmere, with small reservations of velvet here and there, and with steel ..."
6. Extracts from a Journal by Basil Hall (1824)
"The former, who, it seemed, was the padrino, or person who gave away the bride,
was the giver of the feast. In the room to which we were shown, ..."
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