BRIDE

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• BRIDE (noun)
  The noun BRIDE has 3 senses:

1. a woman who has recently been married

2. Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523)

3. a woman participant in her own marriage ceremony

  Familiarity information: BRIDE used as a noun is uncommon.

• BRIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman who has recently been married

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

honeymooner; newlywed (someone recently married)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bride"):

war bride (bride of a serviceman during wartime)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bride; Bridget; Brigid; Saint Bride; Saint Bridget; Saint Brigid; St. Bride; St. Bridget; St. Brigid

Instance hypernyms:

abbess; mother superior; prioress (the superior of a group of nuns)

saint (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A woman participant in her own marriage ceremony

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

participant; player (someone who takes part in an activity)

Holonyms ("bride" is a member of...):

wedding; wedding party (a party of people at a wedding)

Derivation:

bridal (of or pertaining to a bride)

 Context examples 

But inside, it was altogether charming, and the happy bride saw no fault from garret to cellar.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“I will tell you a dream, then,” said the bride.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I left that; it was not mine: it was the visionary bride's who had melted in air.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My father was in the meantime overjoyed, and, in the bustle of preparation, only recognised in the melancholy of his niece the diffidence of a bride.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

And a more cheerful, amiable, honest, happy, bright-looking bride, I believe (as I could not help saying on the spot) the world never saw.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to her room, covered her bride’s dress with a long ulster, put on a bonnet, and went out.

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

Said he not that the transfusion of his blood to her veins had made her truly his bride?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

For Sir Alleyne Edricson and for his beautiful bride the future had also naught but what was good.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A bride, you know, my dear, is always the first in company, let the others be who they may.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The wedding took place; the bride and bridegroom set off for Kent from the church door, and everybody had as much to say, or to hear, on the subject as usual.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)