noun
definition
A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
definition
An object ardently loved.
verb
definition
To make a bride of
Examples of bride in a Sentence
My future bride looked envious.
I have a diamond ring adorning my finger, just as a bride might wear!
For days the bride is fed on little else.
I guess that would be bad luck for the bride – and good luck for the groom.
I thought the nobles were jealous that I took her as my bride, instead of a daughter from a more prominent family.
Why was all the focus always on the bride?
Siegfried is then persuaded to transform himself by his magic Tarnhelm into the likeness of his host, Gutrune's brother Gunther, in order to bring Briinnhilde (whose name is now quite new to him) from her fire-encircled rock, so that Gunther may have her for his bride and Siegfried may wed Gutrune.
This royal bride died of consumption, leaving no living child, and her husband took in 1513, as his second wife, Elizabeth Stafford, daughter of that duke of Buckingham upon whom the old duke of Norfolk, the tears upon his cheeks, was forced to pass sentence of death.
Satisfied that she looked proper as a new bride, she pushed her feet into yellow sandals and headed for the reception room.
Every character a fairy tale is expected to have is represented in a unique way - the princess bride is neither a princess, nor a bride and the fairy godmother is a haggish miracle worker named Max who lives with his equally haggish wife.
There are so many wonderful actors in Princess Bride it's hard to choose a favorite.
So, what part are you doing for the bride?
Only ten of them have any appreciable size, and these are named - commencing from the north - Muko-shima (Bridegroom Island), Nakadachi-shima (Go-between Island 1), Yome-shima (Bride Island), Ototo-jima (Younger-brother Island), Ani-shima (Elderbrother Island), Chichi-jima (Father Island), Haha-jima (Mother Island), Mei-jima (Niece Island), Ani-jima (Elder-sister Island) and Imoto-jima (Younger-sister Island).
The Princess Bride is a great family movie that will continue to entertain folks for generations to come and if you enjoyed it as a kid, you'll love it even more as an adult.
A young girl—not Melissa—rushed up to Billy and hugged him like a war bride.
That old idea dates back to prearranged marriages, when the groom had never seen the bride.
If I had his history, I'd be nervous about the bride's intentions on this day too.
Hagen, the Nibelung's son, has managed to make Siegfried unwittingly drink a love-potion with Gutrune, which causes him to forget his own bride, Briinnhilde.
The bride will need to reapply her lipstick and lip liner since she will be eating, drinking, and kissing her new hubbie.
I strained not to be at odds with my bride.
The marriage of young people was usually arranged between the relatives, the bridegroom's father providing the bride-price, which with other presents the suitor ceremonially presented to the bride's father.
At the time of the wedding the bridegroom was not yet fifteen years old, the bride was five years younger.
The marriage took place in London on the 2nd of May 1641, but owing to the tender years of the bride it was not consummated for several years.
In the original myth the Harlungs, who are not to be confused with the Hartung brothers, were sent to bring home Surya, the bride of the sky-god, Irmintiu.
The prospect of a Spanish infanta as the bride of the future king of England filled them with suspicious terrors.
A timeless tale of true love and vengeance, The Princess Bride is a classic film and a hilarious fairy tale satire.
Sick home from school, a young boy forced to put down his video game controller when his grandfather comes to visit to read him the story of The Princess Bride.
With a full dance card of lovable characters, The Princess Bride waltzes onto the screen, partnered with a smart sense of humor.
A charming giant prone to rhyming, a master swordsman with a lust for vengeance and, of course, the dashing hero in a mask all help make the characters in the Princess Bride unforgettable.
The eldest of any of the White Gods to mate, he'd been lauded with celebrations for days upon the announcement that he'd chosen a bride.
It was so before the Schism, when the White God took an Oracle as his bride and was himself betrayed.
Two miles north-west of Callander is the Pass of Leny, "the gate of the Highlands," and farther in the same direction is Loch Lubnaig, on the shores of which stand the ruins of St Bride's chapel.
Early in 1490 he took a further step and was betrothed to the duchess, and later in the same year the marriage was celebrated by proxy; but Brittany was still occupied by French troops, and Maximilian was unable to go to the assistance of his bride.
A grant of the precedence enjoyed by the bride's father being held illegal, her husband was in the same year created Viscount Stafford.
Metternich, on visiting Compiegne and Paris, found the emperor thoroughly devoted to his bride.
A native of Pernambuco, when a young man he married against the wishes of his mother, who took a violent dislike to the bride.
It was instituted in 1755 at the White Bear Inn (now St Bride's Tavern), Fleet Street, moved about 1850 to Discussion Hall, Shoe Lane, and in 1871 finally migrated to the Barley Mow Inn, Salisbury Square, E.C., its present quarters.
Returning to Oxford, he was elected a fellow of Merton College, and was ordained; and in 1833 he was presented to the rectory of Lavington-with-Graffham in Sussex by Mrs Sargent, whose granddaughter Caroline he married on the 7th of November 1833, the ceremony being performed by the bride's brother-in-law, Samuel Wilberforce, afterwards bishop of Oxford and of Winchester.
The subject is here that of a high goddess of heaven (she has 70 sons) whose friend and lover finds her in the misery of deepest degradation, frees her, and bears her home as his bride.
Again, Tacitus states that the presents of arms and oxen given by the bridegroom at marriage were made to the bride herself and not to her guardian, and such appears to have been the case in the North also from early times.
But the lady arrived after the death of her betrothed, and after long hesitation became the bride of the father.
But the project failed through the death of the intended bride; nor did the marriage of his third daughter, the princess Joanna (1165-1199), with William II., king of Sicily (1177) lead to English intervention in Italian politics.
To avenge herself, Medea presented the new bride with a robe and head-dress, by whose magic properties the wearer was burnt to death, and slew her children by Jason with her own hand.
Young Cavendish was hardly younger than Hobbes, and had been married, a few months before, at the instance of the king, to Christiana, the only daughter of Edward, Lord Bruce of Kinloss, though by reason of the bride's age, which was only twelve years, the pair had no establishment for some time.
The emperor himself entered heartily into this scheme for increasing the power of his family; he declared the marriage with John Henry void, and bestowed upon his son and his bride Margaret not only Tirol, but also Carinthia, now in the hands of the Habsburgs.
Madame de Prie first suggested the Polish princess as a bride for Louis duke of Bourbon, but she was soon betrothed not to him but to Louis XV., a step which was the outcome of the jealousies of the houses of Conde and Orleans, and was everywhere regarded as a mesalliance for the French king.
A pillar of earth before the dam is called the Bride of the Nile, and Arab historians relate that this was substituted, at the Moslem conquest, for a virgin whom it was the custom annually to sacrifice, to ensure a plentiful inundation.
He served as assistant under a master-goldsmith of the city, Hieronymus Holper, and in 1468 married his master's daughter Barbara, the bridegroom being forty and the bride fifteen years of age.
At the age of ten, Alexander, at York, wedded a child bride, Margaret, daughter of Henry III.
Mary was now in France, the destined bride of the Dauphin; while Knox, released from the galleys, preached his doctrines in Berwick and Newcastle, and was a chaplain of Edward VI., till the crowning of Mary Tudor drove him to France and Switzerland.