(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.
Groom
Definition:
(n.) A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.
(n.) One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department; as, the groom of the chamber; the groom of the stole.
(n.) A man recently married, or about to be married; a bridegroom.
(v. i.) To tend or care for, or to curry or clean, as a, horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results suggest that the ACTH-containing part of the hypothalamus around the PVH is crucially involved in the organization of grooming behaviour.
(2) Thus, D1 receptor-mediated grooming and perioral movements seem to be exceptions to the otherwise general finding that co-stimulation of the two receptor subtypes needed for the expression of D1 or D2 agonist effects in normosensitive rats and mice.
(3) These videotaped responses were then scored for a variety of grooming and other behaviours.
(4) "We see him driving around, but he keeps to himself and we're quite close neighbours," said Libbi Darroch, as she groomed her 7-year-old showjumper Muffy at the Coatesville pony club.
(5) The chances of Sam Allardyce becoming the next England manager have been enhanced by his willingness to help the Football Association to mentor a young assistant who would be groomed as his successor.
(6) Females significantly predominated in the second and the third week in ambulatory activity, in entering central fields and in the frequency of grooming periods and in the third and fourth week also in grooming duration.
(7) Specific kinds of maternal behaviour such as nesting, retrieving, grooming and exploring, are seen in non-human mammalian mothers immediately before, during and after delivery.
(8) All three drugs reduced the amount of bombesin-induced grooming.
(9) For all its posing and grooming, there are no nightclubs - the only flashing lights along this coast are the glowworms strobing across the grass at dusk.
(10) It is assumed that one function of grooming behaviour may be a merely cleansing one.
(11) This is training that predators rely upon,” she says in the book, “It is, perhaps, a form of gender-wide grooming.” For Caro, the opportunity of the book was to “place the blame where it lies,” she says, “squarely on the shoulders of those who use their power to exploit and damage others.” For all its bleakness, I drew comfort from the stories of the other contributors.
(12) In situations where excessive grooming is elicited by other peptides or by water immersion, TRH does not further activate the operating systems involved in the existing excessive grooming.
(13) This decline was attributed to increased grooming by cattle and was the only apparent mechanism by which resistance was expressed.
(14) Intracerebroventricular but not parenteral application of ACTH has been shown to elicit excessive grooming behavior in rats and mice.
(15) In order to establish whether the periaqueductal gray (PAG) is indispensible for peptide-induced excessive grooming, lesions were placed in the dorsal part of this structure.
(16) After weaning, open field behavior was nearly normal, there was a mild decrease of rearing, grooming and ambulation and an initial preference for the periphery of the open field decreased.
(17) Since 1921 the average age at marriage has increased by 3.6 years for brides and 1.7 years for grooms.
(18) Exposure of adult male Sprague--Dawley rats to a non-traumatic noise-light stress procedure subsequently increased grooming behavior in a novel environment.
(19) Injection of the same dose of this antagonist analogue did not effect the increased grooming behavior after AVP injection.
(20) In 1995, a year after his novel Forrest Gump had been sanitised for the screen, Winston Groom published Gump and Co , a sequel, which began with: "Let me say this: Everybody makes mistakes ...