Noun: bride
| Singular | bride |
| Plural | brides |
Sample Sentences
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I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 21:9:]
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Has by his own experience tried
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How much the wife is dearer than the bride. [1746, George Lyttelton, An Irregular Ode:]
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Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's. [1921, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like bride
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd (“bride”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride”).
2. Cognates
3. 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 Nynorsk, and Swedish brud (“bride”), Faroese and Icelandic brúður (“bride”), Norwegian Nynorsk brud, brur (“bride”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌸𐍃 (bruþs, “bride”), French bru (“daughter-in-law”), Friulian brût (“daughter-in-law”) (from Old High German brut (“bride”)). See: Middle English Nouns '
bride', Dutch Nouns '
bruid', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
brud', Gothic Nouns '
𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌸𐍃', French Nouns '
bru'.
Verbs referencing "bride"
French Nouns
bru, German Nouns
Braut, Dutch Nouns
bruid, Danish Nouns
brud, Old Norse Nouns
brúðr.