BRIDAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bridal mean? 

• BRIDAL (noun)
  The noun BRIDAL has 1 sense:

1. archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast

  Familiarity information: BRIDAL used as a noun is very rare.

• BRIDAL (adjective)
  The adjective BRIDAL has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to a wedding

2. of or pertaining to a bride

  Familiarity information: BRIDAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRIDAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bridal; espousal

Hypernyms ("bridal" is a kind of...):

marriage; marriage ceremony; wedding (the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony)

• BRIDAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to a wedding

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

bridal; nuptial; spousal

Context example:

marriage vows

Pertainym:

bridal (archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or pertaining to a bride

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

bridal gown

Pertainym:

bride (a woman participant in her own marriage ceremony)

Derivation:

bride (a woman participant in her own marriage ceremony)

 Context examples 

The little house was not far away, and the only bridal journey Meg had was the quiet walk with John from the old home to the new.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There was no putting off the day that advanced—the bridal day; and all preparations for its arrival were complete.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Everywhere I turn I see the same figure—her bloodless arms and relaxed form flung by the murderer on its bridal bier.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It appears that some little trouble was caused by a woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And now the time drew near when Roland’s wedding was to be celebrated, and then, according to an old custom in the country, it was announced that all the girls were to be present at it, and sing in honour of the bridal pair.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A pearl necklace I had given you lay untouched in its little casket; your trunks were left corded and locked as they had been prepared for the bridal tour.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The pale roses Amy gave him were the sort that the Italians lay in dead hands, never in bridal wreaths, and for a moment he wondered if the omen was for Jo or for himself, but the next instant his American common sense got the better of sentimentality, and he laughed a heartier laugh than Amy had heard since he came.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Can I receive from him the bridal ring, endure all the forms of love (which I doubt not he would scrupulously observe) and know that the spirit was quite absent?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There was no bridal procession, but a sudden silence fell upon the room as Mr. March and the young couple took their places under the green arch. Mother and sisters gathered close, as if loath to give Meg up.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I thank Providence, who watched over you, that she then spent her fury on your wedding apparel, which perhaps brought back vague reminiscences of her own bridal days: but on what might have happened, I cannot endure to reflect.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)