different between bride vs marriage

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)

1. 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.

   Coordinate terms: bridegroom, groom

2. (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)

1. (obsolete) to make a bride of

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French bride (“bridle”).

Noun

bride (plural brides)

1. 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)

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

Derived terms

• à bride abattue

Verb

bride

1. inflection of brider:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. 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

1. 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)

1. a bride; a woman recently married or to be married
2. (theology) Christendom as God's partner
3. (rare) any young woman in a relationship
4. (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

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.

English

Etymology

From Middle English mariage, from Old French mariage, from marier (“to marry”), from Latin mar?t? (“marry”, verb, literally “give in marriage”), from maritus (“lover”, “nuptial”), from mas (“male, masculine, of the male sex”). Equivalent to marry +? -age. Displaced native Old English ?esins?ipe.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mæ??d?/
• (General American) enPR: m?r??j
  • (Mary–marry–merry distinction) IPA^(key): /?mæ??d?/
  • (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /?m???d?/, /?me??d?/
• Rhymes: -æ??d?

Noun

marriage (countable and uncountable, plural marriages)

1. The state of being married. [from 14th c.]

2. A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, and/or religious rights and responsibilities. [from 14th c.]
   • 1944, Tiaki Hikawera Mitira, Takitimu, page 123:

     By his marriage to his two wives, Tapuwae quietly strengthened all of the pas of the Wairoa district, as many of them came under his control through these unions.

   • 1990, John Stevens, Lust for enlightenment: Buddhism and sex:

     One layman in Buddha's time decided to embrace celibacy and relinquished his marriage vows to his four wives. When he asked them what they wanted in terms of a settlement, one said, […]

   • 1995, Edith Deen, All of the women of the Bible, page 275:

     The account of the loss of the blessing of his father Isaac appears immediately after Esau's marriage to his Hittite wives.
   1. (sometimes specifically) The union of only two people, to the exclusion of all others.

      • "I have a patient right now whose marriage proved to be a tragedy. She wanted love, sexual gratification, children, and social prestige; but life blasted all her hopes. Her husband didn't love her. He refused even to eat with her, and forced her to serve his meals in his room upstairs. She had no children, no social standing. She went insane; and, in her imagination, she divorced her husband and resumed her maiden name. She now believes she has married into the English aristocracy, and she insists on being called Lady Smith.

      My grandparents' marriage lasted for forty years.

      Pat and Leslie's marriage to each other lasted forty years.

   2. (often specifically) The union of two people of opposite sex, to the exclusion of all others.
3. A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed. [from 14th c.]

   You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe.

4. (figuratively) A close union. [from 15th c.]
   • 2000, Edmund E. Jacobitti, The Classical Heritage in Machiavelli's Histories, in The comedy and tragedy of Machiavelli: essays on the literary works (edited by Vickie B. Sullivan), page 181:

     And this marriage of poetry and history remained a solid relationship throughout the classical period.

   • 2006 August 9, Amy Scattergood, A wild dream in the wild, published in the Los Angeles Times, republished in 2009 in The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook: A Year in the Life of a Restaurant (by Michelle and Phillip Wojtowicz and Michael Gilson with Catherine Price), on the cover:

     But the food is real: a marriage of local ingredients and serious technique.
5. A joining of two parts.
6. (card games) A king and a queen, when held as a hand in some versions of poker or melded in pinochle.
7. (card games) In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value.
8. (prison slang) A homosexual relationship between male prisoners.

Usage notes

• For a detailed discussion of marriage as an institution, with its traditions, its norms, and its accompanying legal rights and obligations, please consult the Wikipedia article on marriage.
• On Wiktionary, see also "common-law marriage", "open marriage", and "gay marriage".

Synonyms

• matrimony
• wedding
• civil union

Hyponyms

• wedlease

Antonyms

• divorce

Derived terms

Pages starting with “marriage”.

Related terms

• marry

Translations

See also

References

• marriage at OneLook Dictionary Search
• marriage in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• marriage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• Michael Weisenberg, The Official Dictionary of Poker (2000, MGI/Mike Caro University, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• germaria