What's the difference between bride and bridesmaid?
Bride
Definition:
(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."
Bridesmaid
Definition:
(n.) A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding.
Example Sentences:
(1) Film industry site the Hollywood Reporter points out that McCarthy has been Photoshopped before , notably on her 2011 breakout hit, Bridesmaids.
(2) Playing a character like Don Draper tends to colour people's interpretations of you …" His character in Bridesmaids , however, is not entirely dissimilar to that of rakish Draper.
(3) The X-Files actor was moved to announce her availability after learning about the reboot, which is being directed by Bridesmaids’ Paul Feig, during a Reddit Ask me Anything session .
(4) The most notable newcomer was Bridesmaids' Kristen Wiig, who eighth with $12m (£7.6m).
(5) In a pre-Bridesmaids world, the name Paul Feig would have meant little, save to a loyal hardcore of 90s coming-of-age TV fans who saw him as the eminence grise behind Judd Apatow's comic empire.
(6) In that way, Magee has shed his bridesmaid's perception, a reputation that may soon attach itself to McInerney.
(7) The film, starring the Bridesmaids actor as a former business heavyweight struggling to rebuild her life after completing a jail sentence for insider trading, has a rating of just 17% on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and was labelled an “unfunny, chaotic mess of ludicrous plotting and tone-deaf set-pieces” by Jordan Hoffman in the Guardian.
(8) 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.
(9) Bridesmaids film-maker Paul Feig has described criticism he received after signing on to direct a new version of Ghostbusters featuring “funny women” as “vile, misogynistic shit” .
(10) Feig, as is clear from both Bridesmaids and his follow-up, The Heat, clearly thinks they are.
(11) Comedian Jo Brand argues that Bridesmaids plays to a stereotype.
(12) Polly Brooks was the only member of her holiday group to emerge alive: her husband of five weeks, Dan Miller, died, along with her bridesmaid Annika Linden, and seven other friends from their party.
(13) Then there was the suggestion that Iceland's entry had "rooted around in a cupboard and found an old bridesmaid dress from 1987" (she went on to come second).
(14) And this week comes Bridesmaids , the so-called women's riposte to The Hangover.
(15) Given that near miss of 1978, it's unnecessarily cruel that they're also the ultimate World Cup bridesmaids, the only country to have fallen at the final hurdle three times.
(16) Only recently have these questions become viable lifestyle options, says Bridesmaids star and writer Kristen Wiig : "I think times have changed a little bit, where people aren't getting married so young.
(17) A new poster for buddy cop comedy The Heat has come under fire for apparently digitally slimming Bridesmaids star Melissa McCarthy .
(18) The film's original director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids) left the project last year owing to creative differences, with Full Monty director Peter Cattaneo taking over.
(19) Aleh’s favourite toy, a bridesmaid doll, was lost in the wreckage.
(20) Bridesmaids director Paul Feig has emerged as the surprise frontrunner to direct Ghostbusters 3, the long-gestating second sequel to the iconic 1984 supernatural comedy.