# bride
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /bɹaɪd/
* Audio (California):(file)
* 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)
* A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
    Coordinate terms: bridegroom, groom
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 21:9: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.
** 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC: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.
* (obsolete, figurative) An object ardently loved.

##### Derived terms

* always a bridesmaid, never a bride
* blushing bride
* bridal
* bride-ale
* brideangroom
* bridebed
* bridecake
* bridechamber
* bride gift
* bride-gift
* bridegroom
* bridehood
* brideless
* bridelet
* bridelike
* bridely
* bridemaid
* bridenapping
* Bride of the Red Sea
* Bride of the Sea
* bride-price
* bride price
* bridesmaid
* bridesmaiden
* bridesman
* bridesmatron
* brideswear
* bride-to-be
* bride token
* bridewain
* bride wealth
* bridewealth
* bride-wealth
* bride wear
* bridewear
* bridewort
* bridey
* bridezilla
* bridie
* child bride
* child-bride
* cyberbride
* December bride
* mail-order bride
* mourning bride
* off like a bride's nightie
* picture bride
* runaway bride
* the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral
* war bride
* would-be bride

##### Translations
#### Verb

bride (third-person singular simple present brides, present participle briding, simple past and past participle brided)
* (obsolete) to make a bride of

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from French bride (“bridle”).

#### Noun

bride (plural brides)
* 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: /bʁid/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -id

### Noun

bride f (plural brides)
* (equestrianism) bridle
* strap
* loop (of a button); bride (of lace)
* (medicine) adhesion
* flange

#### Derived terms

* à bride abattue
* à cheval donné on ne regarde pas la bride
* tourner bride

#### Descendants

* → Portuguese: brida

### Verb

bride
* inflection of brider:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** 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
* 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: /ˈbriːd(ə)/, (West Midlands, Southern) /ˈbryːd(ə)/

### Noun

bride (plural brides or bruden)
* a bride; a woman recently married or to be married
* (theology) Christendom as God's partner
* (rare) any young woman in a relationship
* (rare) a groom; a man recently married or to be married

#### Related terms

* bridale
* bridegome

#### 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
* inflection of bridar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɾide/ [ˈbɾi.ð̞e]
* Rhymes: -ide
* Syllabification: bri‧de

### Verb

bride
* inflection of bridar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative