bride
pronunciation
How to pronounce bride in British English:
UK [braɪd]
How to pronounce bride in American English:
US [braɪd]
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- Noun:
- a woman who has recently been married
- a woman participant in her own marriage ceremony
Word Origin
- bride
- bride: [OE] Bride goes back via Old English bryd to Germanic *brūthiz, and has a wide range of relations in other Germanic languages (including German braut, Dutch bruid, and Swedish brud). All mean ‘woman being married’, so the word has shown remarkable semantic stability; but where it came from originally is not known. In modern English bridal is purely adjectival, but it originated in the Old English noun brydealu ‘wedding feast’, literally ‘bride ale’.
- bride (n.)
- Old English bryd "bride, betrothed or newly married woman," from Proto-Germanic *bruthiz "woman being married" (cognates: Old Frisian breid, Dutch bruid, Old High German brut, German Braut "bride"). Gothic cognate bruþs, however, meant "daughter-in-law," and the form of the word borrowed from Old High German into Medieval Latin (bruta) and Old French (bruy) had only this sense. In ancient Indo-European custom, the married woman went to live with her husband's family, so the only "newly wed female" in such a household would have been the daughter-in-law. On the same notion, some trace the word itself to the PIE verbal root *bru- "to cook, brew, make broth," as this likely was the daughter-in-law's job.
Antonym
Example
- 1. The princess bride is sarcastic , instead of sentimental .
- 2. They 're the bride and groom .
- 3. Forget about the bride and groom .
- 4. Disguise the bride with a veil .
- 5. The young bride was silent .