(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.
Fiance
Definition:
(v. t.) To betroth; to affiance.
(n.) A betrothed man.
Example Sentences:
(1) He also promised Thatcher a new crackdown on immigrant male fiances, saying that he was thinking of "a kind of steeplechase designed to weed out south Asians in particular".
(2) I had to continue my run, performing jokes every night about my wonderful fiance.
(3) He was described as a much-loved son, dad, fiance, brother and cousin.
(4) During her pregnancy, it is likely the duchess will be attended to by the Queen's gynaecologist, who is currently Alan Farthing, the former fiance of the murdered television presenter Jill Dando.
(5) She gave up acting and is now a freelance writer – her first book, Everyday Sexism, comes out in the spring – and lives in north London with her fiance, an actor.
(6) The baby was using up all her energy so she was lying in bed with the radio on, trying to get some rest at the chaotic refugee camp in West Germany where she had fled a few months earlier, leaving her fiance, Fried, back on the east side.
(7) Last year she had another child, a son with her fiance who is also a recovering addict.
(8) Excerpts from the diary show him to be a liberal-minded man and one fond of the company of young people; and show Betty to be a sprightly young Quakeress, buffeted by emotional conflicts between loyalty to her north-country fiance and her flirtation with young Dr. John Coakley Lettsom.
(9) Her fiance, Walton, has moved clubs a lot recently, "and you don't know whether you're coming or going.
(10) This is also what Castile’s fiance Diamond Reynolds relayed in the Facebook Live video she began streaming just moments after the shots were fired, which went viral across the US.
(11) Neither do fiance(e)s. These relationships, apparently, are not “bona fide”.
(12) As compared to women in the Kinsey sample, newer subjects began intercourse earlier, were less likely to have a fiance or husband as their first partner, reported a higher number of sexual partners, and participated in a broader range of sexual behaviors.
(13) John Prescott And Tracey Temple, April 2006, Daily Mirror The Daily Mirror broke the story after Barrie Williams, Tracey Temple's fiance, told them he'd become suspicious she might be having an affair after she started moaning 'DPM' (for Deputy Prime Minister) in her sleep.
(14) John Joe comes from a proud travelling family; Luke's grandad was Irish and ended up in England in unusual circumstances, on the lam to the UK after losing a prearranged fight to one of his fiance's brothers.
(15) Think back to His Girl Friday, in which Rosalind Russell juggles fiance, ex-husband, speed-of-light dialogue and the ethics of journalism, wears extravagant hats and performs an impressive rugby tackle.
(16) Gillian Taylforth v the Sun, 1994 One of Carman's most celebrated victories, the EastEnders actress lost her libel over a report that she had performed oral sex on her fiance in a layby on the A1 after the QC produced one of his famous 11th-hour rabbits from a hat: a video of Ms Taylforth holding a bottle proclaiming to her fellow partygoers "I give good head".
(17) Her fiance, another police officer, was at her side.
(18) And, almost as ominous, we see the attempts of shelf-stacker Ginger, under Jasmine's influence, to swap her car-mechanic fiance, Chilli, for a more middle-class model.
(19) She was no rock thrower at the vanguard of a movement for regime change, but, according to her fiance, Caspian Makan, a young woman who may have ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
(20) As compared to women in the Kinsey sample, the newer subjects began intercourse earlier, were less likely to have a fiance or husband as their first partner, reported a higher number of sexual partners, and participated in a broader range of sexual behaviors.