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bride
English
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /b?a?d/
- Rhymes: -a?d
Etymology 1
From Middle English bride, from Old English br?d (“bride”), from Proto-Germanic *br?diz (“bride”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bräid (“bride”), West Frisian breid (“bride”), German Low German Bruut (“bride”), Dutch bruid (“bride”), German Braut (“bride”), Danish brud (“bride”), Swedish brud (“bride”).
Noun
bride (plural brides)
- A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
- I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
- 1746, George Lyttelton, An Irregular Ode
- Has by his own experience tried
How much the wife is dearer than the bride.
- Has by his own experience tried
- Coordinate terms: bridegroom, groom
- (obsolete, figuratively) An object ardently loved.
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)
- (obsolete) to make a bride of
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French bride (“bridle”).
Noun
bride (plural brides)
- an individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework
Anagrams
- bider, birde, rebid
French
Etymology
From Middle French bride, from Old French bride (“rein, bridle”), from Middle High German br?del (“rein, bridle”), from Old High German br?dil (“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): /b?id/
- Rhymes: -id
Noun
bride f (plural brides)
- (horsemanship) bridle
- strap
- loop (of a button); bride (of lace)
- (medicine) adhesion
- flange
Derived terms
- à bride abattue
Verb
bride
- inflection of brider:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “bride” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Noun
bride f
- plural of brida
Middle English
Alternative forms
- brid, bryd, bryde, brude
Etymology
Inherited from Old English br?d, from Proto-Germanic *br?diz (“bride, daughter-in-law”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bri?d/
Noun
bride (plural brides or bruden)
- a bride; a woman recently married or to be married
- (theology) Christendom as God's partner
- (rare) any young woman in a relationship
- (rare) a groom; a man recently married or to be married
Related terms
Descendants
- English: bride
- Scots: bride
- Yola: breede
References
- “br?d(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-10.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?ide/, [?b?i.ð?e]
Verb
bride
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of bridar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of bridar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of bridar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of bridar.
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beride
English
Etymology
From Middle English beriden, biriden, from Old English ber?dan (“to ride round, surround, besiege, overtake, seize, occupy”), equivalent to be- (“around, about”) +? ride. Cognate with Dutch berijden (“to ride a horse, jockey”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?d
Verb
beride (third-person singular simple present berides, present participle beriding, simple past berode, past participle beridden)
- (transitive) To ride around; beset with horsemen.
- (transitive) To ride beside or by the side of.
- (transitive) To ride upon; infest.
Anagrams
- Berdie, bredie, erebid
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