(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."
Pride
Definition:
(n.) A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.
(n.) The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.
(n.) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.
(n.) Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain.
(n.) That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.
(n.) Show; ostentation; glory.
(n.) Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life.
(n.) Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
(v. t.) To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively.
(v. i.) To be proud; to glory.
Example Sentences:
(1) Enough with Clintonism and its prideful air of professional-class virtue.
(2) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
(3) Gassmann, whose late father, Vittorio , was a critically acclaimed star of Italian cinema in its heyday in the 1960s, tweeted over the weekend with the hashtag #Romasonoio (I am Rome), calling on the city’s residents to be an example of civility and clean up their own little corners of Rome with pride.
(4) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
(5) It's an attractive idea, and yet pride in Europe appears to be giving way to populism and hostility within the union.
(6) He points to the seat where his friend was hit; he says only pride prevents him from lying on the floor for the entire journey.
(7) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(8) She said that want mattered now was “to help a human being [Suárez] and see if the group [the national team] shows its pride and love of Uruguay”.
(9) In a series of analyses guided by intuitive hypotheses, the Smith and Ellsworth theoretical approach, and a relatively unconstrained, open-ended exploration of the data, the situations were found to vary with respect to the emotions of pride, jealousy or envy, pride in the other, boredom, and happiness.
(10) Katwala says the old choice was between national pride on the one hand and acceptance that Britain had changed on the other: "Now we can be proud of the nation that has changed."
(11) We make mistakes, and fall victim to the temptations of pride, and power, and sometimes evil.
(12) Some were less fortunate, but panic has given way to a Balkan pride and resilience.
(13) Last month, Black Lives Matter Toronto staged a sit-in during the city’s gay pride march, which the group had been invited to join as an honored guest.
(14) There was no repeat of last season's humiliation but it told of another Liverpool exertion against Oldham Athletic that Brendan Rodgers took pride only in a competitive Anfield appearance for his son, Anton.
(15) In fact, it was Howard who first introduced a teenage Martin Amis to the delights of reading when she gave him a copy of Pride and Prejudice .
(16) The results surpassed all expectations and the change process has instilled a new sense of pride among nurses at the hospital and sparked the development of training sessions for other nurses in the region.
(17) Prime minister Lee Hsien Loong called the snap election more than a year early in the hope of riding a wave of national pride following the country’s recent 50th anniversary.
(18) He tells me with huge pride that she has an MBE for her work in the health service.
(19) A source of enormous national pride, China’s space program plans a total of 20 missions this year at a time when the US and other countries’ programs are seeking new roles.
(20) BBC1 will also screen a three-part adaptation of PD James' Death Comes to Pemberley, the Jane Austen homage in the 200th anniversary year of Pride and Prejudice, as well as a three-part adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn and Remember Me, a ghost story by Gwyneth Hughes (Five Days, The Girl).