bride

English Online Dictionary. What means bride‎? What does bride mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɹaɪd/
• Rhymes: -aɪd

Etymology 1

From Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd (“bride”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“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)

2. A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.

   Coordinate terms: bridegroom, groom
3. (obsolete, figurative) An object ardently loved.

Derived terms

Translations

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

Inherited from Middle French bride, from Old French bride (“rein, bridle”), from Middle High German brīdel (“rein, bridle”), from Old High German brīdil (“rein, bridle”) (compare also Old High German brittil (“rein, strap”), French bretelle), from Proto-West Germanic *brigdil (“bridle”).

Compare Spanish brida, Italian briglia. More at bridle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁid/
• Rhymes: -id

Noun

bride f (plural brides)

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

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Portuguese: brida

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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

bride f

1. plural of brida

Middle English

Alternative forms

• brid, bryd, bryde
• brud, brude (Southern, West Midlands)

Etymology

Inherited from Old English brȳd, from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride, daughter-in-law”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbriːd(ə)/, (West Midlands, Southern) /ˈbryːd(ə)/

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

• “brīd(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-10.

Portuguese

Verb

bride

1. inflection of bridar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾide/ [ˈbɾi.ð̞e]
• Rhymes: -ide
• Syllabification: bri‧de

Verb

bride

1. inflection of bridar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative