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BRIDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A woman who has recently been married
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bride" is a kind of...):
honeymooner; newlywed (someone recently married)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bride"):
war bride (bride of a serviceman during wartime)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A woman participant in her own marriage ceremony
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("bride" is a kind of...):
participant; player (someone who takes part in an activity)
Holonyms ("bride" is a member of...):
wedding; wedding party (a party of people at a wedding)
Derivation:
bridal (of or pertaining to a bride)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523)
Synonyms:
Bride; Bridget; Brigid; Saint Bride; Saint Bridget; Saint Brigid; St. Bride; St. Bridget; St. Brigid
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
abbess; mother superior; prioress (the superior of a group of nuns)
saint (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)
Context examples:
With a significant smile, which made Fanny quite hate him, he said, “So! Rushworth and his fair bride are at Brighton, I understand; happy man!”
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He is to live with the young couple, and make a handsome allowance on condition that the bride sticks to her old duties.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As his bride could not bear the sight of us, he called us all to him in the forest after he had married her and ordered us always to keep where she could never again set eyes on a Winged Monkey, which we were glad to do, for we were all afraid of her.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
For, though shy, he did not seem reserved; it had rather the appearance of feelings glad to burst their usual restraints; and having talked of poetry, the richness of the present age, and gone through a brief comparison of opinion as to the first-rate poets, trying to ascertain whether Marmion or The Lady of the Lake were to be preferred, and how ranked the Giaour and The Bride of Abydos; and moreover, how the Giaour was to be pronounced, he showed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless agony of the other; he repeated, with such tremulous feeling, the various lines which imaged a broken heart, or a mind destroyed by wretchedness, and looked so entirely as if he meant to be understood, that she ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry, and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
As they sat at the feast, each guest in turn was asked to tell a tale; the bride sat still and did not say a word.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
No one said anything, till Laurie, who insisted on serving the bride, appeared before her, with a loaded salver in his hand and a puzzled expression on his face.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
My bride's mother I had never seen: I understood she was dead.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I presume that I may take it as correct—this article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
No, my dear, I never encouraged any body to marry, but I would always wish to pay every proper attention to a lady—and a bride, especially, is never to be neglected.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents; how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb!
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
