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Bride

//bɹaɪd// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname. countable, uncountable
2
A parish of the sheading of Ayre, Isle of Man. countable, uncountable

Noun

1
A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
"I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife."
2
an individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework
3
a woman who has recently been married wordnet
4
An object ardently loved. figuratively, obsolete
5
a woman participant in her own marriage ceremony wordnet

Verb

1
to make a bride of obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

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, Luxembourgish Braut (“bride”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish brud (“bride”), Faroese, 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”)).

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French bride (“bridle”).

Etymology 4

* As an Irish and Scottish surname, shortened from McBride. * As an English surname, metathesized from Bird.

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