(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.
Groomsman
Definition:
(n.) A male attendant of a bridegroom at his wedding; -- the correlative of bridesmaid.