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bride

Pronunciation: /bɹaɪd/

The English word “bride” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
  2. An object ardently loved.
  3. an individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework

verb

  1. to make a bride of

Etymology

From Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd (“bride”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride”). Cognates Cognate with Yola breede (“bride”), Saterland Frisian Bräid (“bride”), Alemannic German Bruut (“bride”), Central Franconian Brock, Brutt, Bruut (“bride”), Dutch bruid (“bride”), German and Luxembourgish Braut (“bride”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian…

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