(n.) A woman newly married, or about to be married.
(n.) Fig.: An object ardently loved.
(v. t.) To make a bride of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since 1921 the average age at marriage has increased by 3.6 years for brides and 1.7 years for grooms.
(2) Neal Cassady Drops Dead, Kick the Bride Down the Aisle and The Bullfighter Dies: track titles like thse could only come from the new Morrissey album.
(3) I am staying here [in an abusive marriage] to protect them’.” Mifumi estimates that 68% of women in Uganda have faced some form of domestic violence, and the NGO says the bride price remains the biggest contributor to these cases.
(4) The original 1991 Father of the Bride was based on the 1950 film of the same name, while 1995's Father of the Bride II was loosely based on 1951's Father's Little Dividend, a sequel to the earlier movie.
(5) I went to a screening for real-life brides, women who I cannot describe as my kind of women – really nice and all that, but fancy wanting to get married.
(6) Then came Virgin Vie, Virgin Vision, Virgin Vodka, Virgin Wine, Virgin Jeans, Virgin Brides, Virgin Cosmetics and Virgin Cars - none fulfilling their creator's inflated dreams.
(7) Even though the families have very little money, they save what money they have to cut their daughters, because otherwise they will not get a bride price from the future husband," Dirie said.
(8) So, the specific IgE and IgG4 antibodies to soybean may be play the role of "the bride" between specific IgE antibody group and specific IgG4 antibody group of food allergens.
(9) Formal analysis of the time series showed upward trends in the proportions of brides "at risk" in the 16-17 age groups, and in the proportions of children "at risk" born to brides in the 16 to 22 age range.
(10) For this reason, I thought, of all the brides, she would be my kind of bride (I don't know why: it's not like I have any piercings).
(11) The bride answers: “Well, monthly instalments are only for objects, so if you expect monthly instalments from me, that means your son is an object I can use as I wish.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A film from the Beti Padhao, Beti Badhao initiative In the second video, a bride is about to go for a ride on a scooter with her husband.
(12) Naseer insisted the emails consisted only of harmless banter about looking for a potential bride after going to England to take computer science classes.
(13) Meanwhile, we have this second-tier ITV offering in which a hen weekend or wedding party has been infiltrated by an actor playing an “over the top” character who the bride insists is a long lost-friend or family member.
(14) I gaze, bemused and, yes, fascinated, at curious anthropological artefacts such as Bride Wars or He's Just Not That Into You or Confessions of a Shopaholic, in which Kate Hudson or Ginnifer Goodwin or Isla Fisher play characters who might almost belong to a third gender, a bubble-headed one that emits ear-splitting shrieks, teeters constantly on the verge of hysteria and acts as an indiscriminate mouthpiece for the placement of overpriced tat.
(15) Alison, meanwhile, is a prime example of what Gilbert describes as someone freed from “the Tyranny of the Bride”: having done it once, and particularly having had a child, she feels no overwhelming need to do it again.
(16) New world celebrity will meet old world monarchy on Friday as Prince William and his bride land in California to kick off a three-day visit to America that has made the royal pair the hottest couple in Hollywood.
(17) But with seven out of 10 titles losing sales – Easy Living, GQ, House & Garden, World of Interiors, Glamour, Vogue and Condé Nast Traveller – Condé Nast's results risk looking more bridesmaid than bride.
(18) "There are different forms of child marriage but all have one common point: the girl doesn't have a voice," Françoise Kpeglo Moudouthe, Africa regional officer for the advocacy group Girls Not Brides , said.
(19) A crossing at Quneitra, operated by the UN, allows the movement of UN personnel, truckloads of apples, a few Druze students and the occasional Syrian bride in white.
(20) Bride said: "In North America, we have witnessed the devastating effect the Walmart model has had on small business, suppliers and communities."
Bridegroom
Definition:
(n.) A man newly married, or just about to be married.
Example Sentences:
(1) Be it the traditional midwife checking for a hymen on a bride's wedding night, or a forensics expert or doctor called in after a prospective bridegroom's suspicions, young women are forced to spread their legs to appease the god of virginity.
(2) It is as if a bridegroom busy planning a wedding found his fiancée was secretly planning an alternative wedding with another suitor.
(3) The lady said yes, and the crowd responded with a burst of: “You don’t know what you’re doing.” The prospective bridegroom pushed his luck by tipping City to win, though the visitors could have taken the lead shortly after the interval when Agüero turned Kieran Trippier on the halfway line but delayed his pass to an unmarked Silva a fraction too long.
(4) But in the last two or three days of her life, Ted's story Difficulties Of a Bridegroom was broadcast on the radio.
(5) In this type of stem family, the husband (bridegroom) changes his family name to that of the wife and lives with the wife's family, to whom he is generally obliged to devote himself.
(6) Only 31.7% of bridegrooms and 34.6% of brides had regular physical check-up; 20.5% of bridegrooms and 33.5% of brides had a history of chronic disease.
(7) The average age of bridegrooms and brides was 22.1 and 21.6, respectively; 27.7% of the wives and 19.4 of the husbands had a college education.
(8) There's often a bit of controversy at a wedding, but even the most inappropriate joke in the best man's speech pales into insignificance when viewed alongside the questions the registrar has to ask – or not ask – of the bride and bridegroom's parents.
(9) An analysis is also made of the morbidity among brides and bridegrooms and comprehensive evaluation of their health status with regard to the group of health.
(10) The article provides a comprehensive characterization of young people on the eve of creating a family including the evaluation of socioeconomic, socio-demographic, socio-psychological features sexual behaviour of brides and bridegrooms before marriage, the use of contraceptives, etc.
(11) Reasons for getting married included love (86.5% of bridegrooms and 84.8% of brides), friendship (8.3% and 13.3%, respectively), and pregnancy (1% and 0.5%, respectively).
(12) The data include the standard demographic variables concerning the couple and their marriage and also: the day of the week the marriage was celebrated; whether the fathers or relatives of similar surname to the spouses acted as witnesses; the patterns of name usage by brides; the numbers of forenames of the marriage partners and their fathers; and the frequency of bridegrooms having one or more forenames in common with their fathers.
(13) Premarital sexual relations were recorded in 77.7% of bridegrooms and in 65.2% of brides; 27.2% and 39.1%, respectively, became sexually active when they were 18 years old.